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UK
/ɡˈɔːɡən/
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[ US /ˈɡɔɹɡən/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɔɹɡən/ ]
NOUN
- (Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair; a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone
How To Use Gorgon In A Sentence
- Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding.
- Once inside we had the opportunity to gaze out onto the reef past a thick pelmet of black gorgonians and a window box of orange elephant ear sponges.
- Her step-mother, who hated her, was an absolute gorgon.
- It's got an on-air team led not only by Chow, as the host, but highbrow art experts such as gorgon auctioneer Simon de Pury, who will mentor the 14 artists competing for a cash prize of $100,000 and a solo show at the prestigious Brooklyn Museum of Art. Judges and guest judges include New York gallery owner The latest from teenvogue.com
- But if I don't at least attempt to get a solid five and a half hours of sleep tonight, I will become the Gorgon Journalist of Georgia -- which, although it has its alliterative merits (is "alliterative" a word, by the way? Bluemeany Diary Entry
- On my fourth dive of the week, I rounded an outcrop at about 22m to be greeted by a view of a series of rocky pinnacles covered in gorgonians bathed in the rubescent sunlight of a late-autumn afternoon.
- The first two are images of Hadrian and a detail of the gorgoneion, the third is of Septimus Severus.
- Under the influence of all sorts of things, including real-life doctor drugs, I turned into a voracious drooling gorgon.
- Sponges make up 70% of their diet with the rest of their diet consisting of gorgonian polyps, other invertebrates, and algae. Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
- Soft corals such as gorgonians and leather corals belong to the other major coral family Octocoralia.