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medusa's head

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Noun1.medusa's head - African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branchesmedusa's head - African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches
Euphorbia caput-medusae, Euphorbia medusae
Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia - type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice
spurge - any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
2.medusa's head - weedy rye grass having long bristling awnsmedusa's head - weedy rye grass having long bristling awns
Elymus caput-medusae
wild rye - any of several grasses of the genus Elymus
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Rawdon Crawley meanwhile hurried on from Great Gaunt Street, and knocking at the great bronze Medusa's head which stands on the portal of Gaunt House, brought out the purple Silenus in a red and silver waistcoat who acts as porter of that palace.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
she said advancing alone close to the girl who was affected exactly as if she had seen Medusa's head with serpentine locks set mysteriously on the shoulders of that familiar person, in that brown dress, under that hat she knew so well.
Chance by Conrad, Joseph View in context
 
 
 
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