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hippogriff

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɪpəɡɹɪf/Sorted ffghiiopprStarts with HEnds with F0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.

Word origin

From French hippogriffe, from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”, English hippo-) + γρύψ (grúps, “griffin”).

Used in a sentence

  • To talk of being able to ride with stirrups, is trifling: get on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph, or mount the white nag in the Revelation.
  • Yet the work is surely not a mere map of the hippogryffon wanderings of some disordered imagination…
  • Oceanus himself follows on a hippogriff, and counsels Prometheus to submit to Zeus.

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