1) King 2) Male monarch
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[genus] Gordius is a genus of worms in the phylum Nematomorpha, the horsehair worms. It was formerly treated as the only genus in the family Gordiidae, but the genus Acutogordius is now usually included there. The genus is distributed worldwide except for Antarctica, where no Nematomorpha have been recorded. The adult worm is a free-living ...
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• (n.) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.Gordius: words in the defin...
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(from the article `Gordium`) ...but the city achieved its greatest prominence as the flourishing capital of Phrygia in the 9th and 8th centuries . According to legend, the ...
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<zoology> A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs. ... Origin: NL. See Gordi...
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Gor'di·us noun [ New Latin See
Gordian , 1.]
(Zoology) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also
hair eel ,
hairworm , and
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Type: Term Pronunciation: gōr′dē-ŭs Definitions: 1. An old name for the nematode genus Dracunculus, properly applied to members of the phylum Nematomorpha, commonly called the gordian or horsehair worms, hair worms, or hair snakes.
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Gordius is the hair-worm genus of marine worms. The eggs are laid in water, but the larvae on emergence bore their way into the bodies of young insects, larvae etc. If thee hosts are swallowed by fish or other predators, the worms mature in the new host before finally quitting for a free life in water.
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[
n] - legendary king of ancient Phrygia who was said to be responsible for the Gordian knot
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