Gor*go"ni*an (?), a. [L. Gorgoneus.]
1.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific.
The rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.
Milton.
2. Zool.
Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.
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Gor*go"ni*an, n. Zool.
One of the Gorgoniacea.
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