Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sphinx with the head of a ram.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the three varieties of the Egyptian sphinx, characterized by having the head of a ram, as distinguished from the androsphinx, with the head of a human being, and the hieracosphinx, or hawk-headed sphinx. See
sphinx .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sphinx with the head of a ram.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sphinx with the head of aram .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek krīos, ram; see ker- in Indo-European roots + sphinx.]
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Ancient Greek
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