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Definition of Medusan
1. Noun. One of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles.
Group relationships: Cnidaria, Coelenterata, Phylum Cnidaria, Phylum Coelenterata
Generic synonyms: Cnidarian, Coelenterate
Definition of Medusan
1. medusa [n -S] - See also: medusa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medusan
Literary usage of Medusan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1856)
"Still more astonished at the assertion that a Zoophyte ever produces a medusan
embryo,—the fact having been established beyond all question that the Medusa ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... a form inhabiting fresh or brackish water. Turns produces free medusae.
Amphi- nema is a medusan genus of unknown hydroid. а. ..."
3. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"... whose medusan structure is less distinctly pronounced, do not completely detach
themselves, but expand cue after another at the mouth of the capsule, ..."
4. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"This developmental history may be modified in two ways: either the polypoid or
the medusan generation may be suppressed. In the first case we have polyps ..."
5. Animal Physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1859)
"... propagates its kind by the formation of polype-buds, which detach themselves
and lead independent lives ; and thus from a single medusan egg there may ..."
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