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Gorgonian   /gɔrgˈoʊniən/   Listen
noun
Gorgonian  n.  (Zool.) One of the Gorgoniacea.


adjective
Gorgonian  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. "The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move."
2.
(Zool.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.





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"Gorgonian" Quotes from Famous Books



... alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous &c. (danger) 665; portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting &c. (painful) 830; Gorgonian. Adv. in terrorem[Lat]. Int. " angels and ministers of grace ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


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