Gor"gon, a. Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face.
Dryden.
||Gor`go*na"ce*a (gÙr`g*n"sh*), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) See Gorgoniacea.
Gor*go"ne*an (gÙr*g"n*an), a. See Gorgonian, 1.
||Gor`go*ne"ion (gÙr`g*n"yn), n.; pl. Gorgoneia (#). [NL., fr. Gr.
||Gorgo`neios, equiv. to Gorgei^os belonging to a Gorgon.] (Arch.) A
||mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes.
||Gor*go"ni*a (gÙr*g"n*), n. [L., a coral which hardens in the air.]
||(Zoˆl.) 1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now
||restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia
||flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a
||flexible, horny axis.