Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Gordius"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Gordius
n : legendary king of ancient Phrygia who was said to be
responsible for the Gordian knot [syn: {Gordius}]
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