1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying
into stone; terrific. "The
rest his look Bound with Gorgonian
rigor not to move." (Milton)
2.
Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.
Origin: L. Gorgoneus.
One of the Gorgoniacea.
Source: Websters Vocabulary