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English
Adjective
gordian (not comparable)
- Alternative form of Gordian
2000 May 26, Kim Nasmyth et al., “Splitting the Chromosome: Cutting the Ties That Bind Sister Chromatids”, in Science, volume 288, number 5470, →DOI, pages 1379–1384:The final disentanglement of sister chromatids can only be achieved by cleavage of the "gordian knot" by separin.
1818, John Keats, Endymion:This fire, like the eye of gordian snake, Bewitch'd me towards; and I soon was near A sight too fearful for the feel of fear: In thicket hid I curs'd the haggard scene-- 500 The banquet of my arms, my arbour queen, Seated upon an uptorn forest root; And all around her shapes, wizard and brute, Laughing, and wailing, groveling, serpenting, Shewing tooth, tusk, and venom-bag, and sting!
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French gordien.
Adjective
gordian m or n (feminine singular gordiană, masculine plural gordieni, feminine and neuter plural gordiene)
- Gordian
Declension