Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the three Gorgons.
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- noun (Greek mythology) one of the three Gorgons
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Examples
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Unfortunately, Medusa chose just that moment to arrive with Stheno and Euryale.
Aphrodite the Beauty Joan Holub 2010
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Unfortunately, Medusa chose just that moment to arrive with Stheno and Euryale.
Aphrodite the Beauty Joan Holub 2010
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Unfortunately, Medusa chose just that moment to arrive with Stheno and Euryale.
Aphrodite the Beauty Joan Holub 2010
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Stheno works in real estate, with faint praise for her sister's sculptures:
APED: "medusa" hradzka 2009
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Their names were Medūsa, Euryăle, and Stheno, and they are represented as having scales on their bodies, brazen hands, golden wings, tusks like boars, and snakes for hair.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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Stheno, and Euryale, daughters of Phorcys and Cete.
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Her sisters, Stheno and Euryale, were neither subject to old age nor death.
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Virtues -- Stheno and Euryale not subject to Old Age or
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Stheno and Euryale consented to this; but Medusa resisting, she was killed by Perseus.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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In addition, the Stheno/Parts standard CAD parts library has been revised and updated in line with industry developments.
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