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Medusa's head

noun

African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches. Synonyms: Euphorbia caput-medusae, Euphorbia medusae.

Weedy rye grass having long bristling awns. Synonym: Elymus caput-medusae.

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"Medusa's head" Quotes from Famous Books

... Pyrrha, escaping from the flood, repeopled the earth by casting behind them stones which became men and women; Heraulos was changed into stone for offending Mercury; Pyrrhus for offending Rhea; Phineus, and Polydectes with his guests, for offending Perseus: under the petrifying glance of Medusa's head such transformations became a thing ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

Words linked to "Medusa's head" : wild rye, genus Euphorbia, Euphorbia, spurge