(n.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.
(n.) Anything very ugly or horrid.
(n.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu.
(a.) Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face.
Example Sentences:
(1) The blue and the black wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus and C. gnou, are currently classified as congeneric, but previous reports have placed C. taurinus in its own genus, Gorgon.
(2) That, suggest Gorgon City, is the one thing they need to be careful of – label politics getting in the way of making music.
(3) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(4) The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles".
(5) She has got an only child and she is concerned that if she doesn't have another one, her currently happy and well-balanced three year old is somehow going to mutate into a gorgon of bitterness and despair.
(6) Reputex says the detailed rules, signed off by cabinet on Tuesday, confirm that none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new LNG processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(7) Jess and Sinead are working on solo records that have more of a soul and R&B sound; MNEK writes and produces for other pop stars including Kylie and Little Mix, and is readying his own album of quirky electro-funk for release later in the year; Gorgon City have been working on an album “that’s timeless, not just a 2014 house record”; and Duke Dumont still spends most of his time DJing underground house.
(8) Madonna is portrayed as a baby-grabbing gorgon, lambasted by everyone from Saturday Night Live to Graham Norton.
(9) MNEK has sung on tracks for Duke Dumont and Gorgon City; Gorgon City produced the new single by Jess Glynne; Jess Glynne is lifelong best mates with Sinead Harnett.
(10) Everyone round this table has that same pressure, they don’t want to be known as just a pop-house act,” adds Kai of Gorgon City.
(11) We’ve set things changing now, and though it’s scary, I’d be happy if it all changed again.” Gorgon City’s Here For You is out on Mon
(12) On the US side, there were more than 100 CIA-led drone strikes in Pakistan last year and the Pentagon is about to deploy its intimidatingly named Gorgon Stare airborne surveillance system, a multi-image video device for tracking suspects across large areas.
(13) First and foremost, we’ve all partied with each other,” explains Matt from Gorgon City.
(14) The party always comes first.” “I was with Gorgon City in Ibiza last year,” recalls Jess.
(15) The dredging involved the removal of 7m cubic metres of seabed to create a channel to accommodate ships for the Gorgon natural gas project.
Gorgonian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific.
(a.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.
(n.) One of the Gorgoniacea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lophotoxin, a diterpene lactone paralytic toxin from gorgonian corals of the genus Lophogorgia, inhibits [125I]-alpha-toxin binding to surface nicotinic receptors of BC3H-1 cells by irreversible occupation of the primary agonist sites.
(2) Dihydrosinularin and 11-epi-sinulariolide acetate have been isolated previously from soft corals which, together with gorgonians, are the richest sources of marine cembranoids.
(3) Lophotoxin is a diterpene lactone isolated from gorgonian corals.
(4) Brianolide (1), a new antiinflammatory diterpenoid of the briarein class, possessing a beta substituent at C-12 (R), has been isolated from the Okinawan gorgonian Briareum sp.
(5) Despite the considerable effort expended in the exploration of alternative, large-scale sources of eicosanoids, the first-discovered nonmammalian source--the gorgonian Plexaura homomalla--remains by far the most impressive.
(6) In gorgonian outlines, due to their limited multi-scale organization, we have found curved trends typical of non-fractal lines.
(7) This suggests that gorgonian growth mechanisms retain a self-similar design, which becomes evident only in species combining a large size with a high branch density.
(8) The organic matrix of spicules prepared from the gorgonian Pseudoplexaura flagellosa (Houttuyn) is alcianophilic.
(9) A new azulene pigment, 2,3-dihydrolinderazulene, has been isolated along with guaiazulene and linderazulene as bioactive metabolites from the gorgonian Acalycigorgia sp.
(10) Lophotoxin and lophotoxin analog-1 are uncharged cyclic diterpenes obtained from gorgonian corals.
(11) The unique chemical structure and covalent reactivity of these gorgonian coral toxins will undoubtedly allow further insights into the structure of the agonist recognition site.
(12) The biological and biochemical pharmacology of fuscoside, a novel anti-inflammatory marine natural product isolated from the Caribbean gorgonian Eunicea fusca, has recently been characterized using murine (part I) and human (part II) models of inflammation.
(13) The intercellular material of the gorgonian contains a galactose-specific lectin, as determined by double diffusion experiments and haemagglutination inhibition experiments using a series of galacto-glycoconjugates.
(14) This paper is a brief review of the diterpenoid chemistry of gorgonian corals of the genus Pseudopterogorgia.
(15) Praelolide is a new compound which was isolated out from the gorgonian, Menella praelonga (Ridley), collected from the South Sea of China at Zhanjiang, Guangdong.
(16) Crassin acetate, a lactonic cembrane diterpene, has been shown to be the principal antineoplastic agent present in the marine invertebrates (gorgonians) Pseudoplexaura porosa, P. flagellosa, P. wagenaari and P. crucis.
(17) Four species of gorgonians: three related pseudoplexaurids Pseudoplexaura porosa, P. flagellosa and P. wagenaari; and the unrelated Pseudopterogorgia americana, are sources of zooxanthellae capable, in purified broken cell preparations, of converting [14C]labeled farnesyl pyrophosphate into squalene.
(18) Prostaglandin A2 is a major constituent of the gorgonian Plexaura homomalla, and there is evidence that its biosynthesis involves a noncyclooxygenase pathway.
(19) Gorgonian growth has been hitherto studied mostly by investigating the influence of different environmental conditions on shape and orientation.
(20) Colony outlines of the gorgonian species Eunicella singularis, Eunicella cavolinii, Paramuricea clavata, and Lophogorgia ceratophyta have been digitized and their length measured by traveling along them with a series of logarithmically increasing steps.