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hippogriff
Hippogriff (noun) means a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
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a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
"Oceanus himself follows on a hippogriff, and counsels Prometheus to submit to Zeus."
— Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus (1908)
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Etymology
Came from French hippogriffe, from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, "horse", English hippo-) and γρύψ (grúps, "griffin").
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"hippogriff" (noun) means a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
