"medusa" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, volume 36, number 5",
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        "(zoology) A jellyfish; specifically, a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles."
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