Gor·go·ni·an a.
1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific.
The rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. --Milton.
2. Zool. Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.
Gor·go·ni·an, n. Zool. One of the Gorgoniacea.
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gorgonian
n : corals having a horny of calcareous branching skeleton [syn:
gorgonian coral]