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Legendary king of ancient Phrygia who was said to be responsible for the Gordian knot
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gordius
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gordius \Gor"di*us\, n. [NL. See Gordian , 1.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 ...
Usage examples of gordius.
King of Pontus reached the Halys, crossed it, and put his fifty thousand men into camp alongside the fifty thousand who already occupied Mazaca, he was met by Gordius, big with the most extraordinary news.