Polyp vs. Medusa

Polypnoun

(medicine) an abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane

Polypnoun

(zoology) a cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles

Polypnoun

One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

Polypnoun

a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane

Polypnoun

one of two forms that coelenterates take e.g. a hydra or coral: usually sedentary and has a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth

Medusanoun

A jellyfish; specifically (zoology), a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles.

Medusanoun

The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.

Medusanoun

Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.

Medusanoun

(Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus

Medusanoun

any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

Medusanoun

one of two forms that coelenterates take: is the free-swimming sexual stage in the life cycle of a coelenterate and has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles

Medusa

In Greek mythology, Medusa (; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα ) also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Those who gazed into her eyes would turn to stone.