English > mythical creature: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A monster renowned in folklore and myth. |
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| Synonym | mythical monster |
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| Instances | Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes | (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals |
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| Python | (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi |
| Narrower | Cerberus, hellhound | (Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding / guarding the entrance to Hades |
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| Chimera, Chimaera | (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail |
| Geryon | (Greek mythology) a mythical monster with three heads that was slain by Hercules |
| Gorgon | (Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair |
| Harpy | (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster |
| Hydra | (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads |
| Minotaur | (Greek mythology) a mythical monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man |
| Nemean lion | (Greek mythology) an enormous lion strangled by Hercules as the first of his 12 labors |
| Sphinx | (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body |
| Typhoeus | (Greek mythology) son of Gaea and Tartarus who created the whirlwinds |
| Typhon | (Greek mythology) a monster with a hundred heads who breathed out flames |
| amphisbaena | (classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body |
| basilisk | (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance |
| centaur | (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse |
| cockatrice | monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg |
| dragon, firedrake | A creature of Teutonic mythology |
| gryphon, griffin, griffon | winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion |
| legendary creature | A monster that is unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual |
| leviathan | monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament |
| manticore, mantichora, manticora, mantiger | A mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion |
| roc | mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength |
| salamander | reptilian creature supposed to live in fire |
| troll | (Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature / creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains |
| werewolf, wolfman, lycanthrope, loup-garou | A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again |
| Broader | monster | An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts |
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| mythical being | An imaginary being of myth or fable |
| Spanish | criatura mítica, monstruo mítico |
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| Catalan | criatura mítica, monstre mític |
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