medusiform

[Lat., ., Medus (a); i connective, and form a appearance, shape.] Having the shape of a Medusa; bell-shaped. medusiform-bud, s. Zool .: The ova contained in the marsupial pouch appended to the apices of some gonophores. "The contents of the gonophores we may call medusi form-buds."- Roll est on : Forms of Animal Life , i. 160.