How to Use medusa in a Sentence

medusa

noun

• The soft, circular body, known as the medusa, rests on the seafloor while just a few short, tentacles float above them.
  — Hannah Knighton, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
• The medusa danced before her, flaunting its translucent skirts.
  — L. S. Asekoff, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Gold thought that genes unique to jellyfish would be active during the transformation from polyp to medusa.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2019
• What isn’t known is the maximum number of times, if there is a maximum, that a medusa can regenerate, Dr. Pascual Torner said.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• Gold explained that the medusa stage represents a quantum leap in complexity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2019
• To go from being a stationary polyp to a floating medusa is almost akin to humans evolving the ability to swim through the air and capture birds with springy, netlike appendages.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2019
• For now, Turritopsis dohrnii is the only known animal that can develop in reverse, transforming from a medusa back to a polyp.
  — Discover Magazine, 3 June 2015
• If so, scientists are hopeful that once conditions in the lake improve, a new generation will again produce the free swimming adult medusa that so delight tourists.
  — National Geographic, 4 May 2016
• In the 1990s Italian researchers discovered that Turritopsis dorhnii, a jellyfish the size of a pen tip, reverts back and forth from a medusa to a polyp, earning the nickname the immortal jellyfish.
  — Martin Shields, National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
• In the 1990s Italian researchers discovered that Turritopsis dorhnii, a jellyfish the size of a pen tip, reverts back and forth from a medusa to a polyp, earning the nickname the immortal jellyfish.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
• Ordinarily, jellyfish are born from eggs and grow into larvae, which morph into polyps before becoming free-swimming medusa.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2018

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