manticore

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  1. noun A legendary monster having the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a dragon or scorpion.

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  • However, a Prog Con would also involve something nobody wants: a reenactment of ELP's "Tarkus" Side One, which is a 20-minute song cycle about a half-armadillo, half-tank creature who erupts out of a volcano and fights a manticore. —  Kung Fu Rodeo
  • The Satanic Verses where a group of black and Asian migrants find themselves mysteriously transmogrified into beasts: a goat, a half-man half-tiger manticore, a snake. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • It was the manticore, a beast with rows of shark-like teeth, and a hunger for human flesh! —  News
  • “The ancient peak is hollowed with old tunnels and pits If so,” Er’ril said, “we could spend an entire winter searching for where the manticore is hidden.” But the vorg pointed its arm more vigorously. —  Witch Gate.htm
  • Heads turned to the manticore, then back to Tol’chuk. —  Witch Gate.htm
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  1. Middle English manticores, from Latin mantichōra, from Greek mantikhōras, variant of martiokhōras, from Old Iranian *martiya-khvāra-, man-eater : *martiya-, man; see mer- in Indo-European roots + *-khvāra-, eater; see swel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also manticor, manticora, mantichor, and corruptly mantiger; from French manticore, from Latin mantichora, from Greek μαντιχώρας, μαντιχόρας, corrupt forms of μαρτιχώρας, μαρτιχόρας, a fabulous animal mentioned by Ctesias, with a human head, a lion's body, a porcupine's quills, and a scorpion's tail, from Persian mardkhora, ‘man-eater,’ from mard, man, + -khora, khaur, eater.
 

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