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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Mythology A monster having the wings, claws, and head of a griffin and the body and hindquarters of a horse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fabulous creature, like a griffin, but with hoofs and other parts resembling a horse, apparently invented, in imitation of Pegasus, by the romancers of the middle ages, and furnished to their heroes as a means of transportation through the air.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Myth.) A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.

Etymologies

  1. French hippogriffe, from Italian ippogrifo : Greek hippos, horse; see ekwo- in Indo-European roots + Italian grifo, griffin (from Latin grȳphus; see griffin). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby "Astolpho, when he had dismissed his troops, mounted the Hippogriff, and at one flight shot over to Sardinia, thence to Corsica, thence, turning slightly to the left, hovered over Provence, and alighted in the neighborhood of Marseilles. There he did what he had been commanded to do by the holy saint; he unbridled the Hippogriff, and turned him loose to seek his own retreats, never more to be galled with saddle or bit. The horn had lost its marvellous power ever since the visit to the moon."
    - Thomas Bulfinch, 'Age of Fable'. Sep 19, 2009

  • avivamagnolia

    ~fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. Jan 17, 2009

  • avivamagnolia In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a hippogriff is a magical beast based upon the hippogriff of various mythologies. It is part eagle and part horse, and sometimes regarded as part griffon and part horse (indeed, in mythology a hippogriff is the offspring of a griffon and a mare). Depictions of the hippogriff vary; sometimes they are shown as a horse with the forequarters of a giant eagle, and sometimes as a horse with wings, an eagle's head, a mane and tail of feathers, and feathered lower legs. Jan 17, 2009

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