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hieracosphinx

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The hawk-headed sphinx of Egypt, as distinguished from the androsphinx and criosphinx.

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  • noun A mythical beast found in Egyptian sculpture and European heraldry, being a lion with the head of a falcon.

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  • oroboros commented on the word hieracosphinx

    also "hyracosphinx"--sphinx with the head of a hawk rather than that of a woman. omen of evil.

    December 10, 2006