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gorgonians

gorgonians is the plural of gorgonian.

Meaning of gorgonian

Noun

gorgonian (plural gorgonians)

  1. A member of the order Alcyonacea, comprising the soft corals.
    • Some gorgonians, living in shallow, sunlit waters, tend to be brightly coloured – gold, purple, red – and flex softly in the currents.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 134

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Questions about gorgonians

What is gorgonians the plural of?
Gorgonians is the plural of gorgonian.

Words near gorgonians in the dictionary

  1. Gorgonean
  2. gorgoneia
  3. gorgoneion
  4. Gorgonesque
  5. gorgonian
  6. gorgonians
  7. gorgoniid
  8. gorgoniids
  9. gorgonin
  10. gorgonise
  11. gorgonised

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