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Medousa

Medousa is the alternative form of Medusa.

Meaning of Medusa

Proper noun

Medusa

  1. (Greek) The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus.
    • On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (supra, p. 158) that Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this...1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, →ISBN, page 201

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Origin of Medousa

From Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa).

Questions about Medousa

What is Medousa the alternative form of?
Medousa is the alternative form of Medusa.

Words near Medousa in the dictionary

  1. medoids
  2. Medomak
  3. Medonnegonix Lake
  4. Medora
  5. medorinone
  6. Medousa
  7. medovik
  8. medovukha
  9. Medowie
  10. Medows
  11. medoxomil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Medousa (page history and authors); Medusa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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