Crossword clues for gordius
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, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.
Wikipedia
Gordius can mean:
- Gordius (genus), a genus of horsehair worms
- Gordias, or Gordius, an ancient royal family of Phrygia
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.
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.