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Greek
(Πήγασος) Greek name derived from the word pegaios, PEGASOS means "born near the pege (source of the ocean, spring, or well)." In mythology, this is the name of a winged horse who was the son of Poseidôn and the Gorgon Medousa (Latin Medusa), and brother to the giant Khrysaor (Latin Chrysaor). Like Athene, who was born of Zeus's head, Pegasos and Chrysaor are said to have been born of Medusa's neck when Perseus beheaded her. According to Hesiod, everywhere Pegasus struck hoof to earth an inspiring spring burst forth.
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Cunning.
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(ΧÏυσάωÏ) Greek name KHRYSAOR means "golden sword." In mythology, this is the name of a son of Poseidôn and the Gorgon Medousa (Latin Medusa). He is usually described as a giant, but sometimes as a winged boar, just as his twin brother Pegasos is described as a winged horse.
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German, Swedish
Bold; Experienced Advisor; Brave Counsel
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Tamil
Satyendra | ஸதà¯à®¯à¯‡à®¨à¯à®¤à¯à®°
Lord of truth (Satyam)
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Punjabi, Sikh, Telugu
King of Lions
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Lord Vishnu, Leading to victory
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Muslim
Reviver of the religion (Islam)
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Indian
Road, Path
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English
English : occupational name for a burner of charcoal or a gatherer or seller of coal, from Middle English cole ‘(char)coal’ + the agent suffix -(i)er.A Huguenot family of this name from Paris emigrated to New York. They were probably originally called Colié.
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African
born on Monday.
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Tamil
Sabitri | ஸாபீதà¯à®°à¯€
Vedic verse addressed to savitr
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English : unexplained.possibly an Americanized spelling of Italian Ventre, a short form of a compound name formed with ventre ‘belly’, ‘stomach’, such as Bonventre.
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Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids.
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The circular membrane that partially incloses the space beneath the umbrella of hydroid medusae.
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A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel.
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A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusae.
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One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.
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One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.
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Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.
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The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
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One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.
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The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
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A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae.
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A medusa.
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The campanularian medusae.
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A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae.
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Resembling a medusa in shape or structure.
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A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa.
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of Medusa