1) Alternative to Scylla 2) DC Comics supervillain 3) Latin girl name 4) Maelstrom 5) Offspring of Poseidon 6) Vortex 7) Whirlpool 8) Whirlpool off Sicily
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[genus] Charybdis is a genus of swimming crabs in the family Portunidae; `Charybdis` is Greek for whirlpool. The genus Charybdis contains the following species: ===Charybdis affinis=== Charybdis affinis has a hexagonal, concave carapace with a yellowish-grey colour. This crab is found in the Indian Ocean and in the West Pacific. ===Charybdi...
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• (n.) A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
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In Greek mythology, a monster and the whirlpool it forms, on the Sicilian side of the northern end of the narrow Straits of Messina, opposite the sea monster Scylla. Charybdis lived under a huge fig...
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Cha·ryb'dis noun [ Latin , Greek ....] A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See
Scylla .
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The whirlpool on one side of the Strait of Messina that swallowed ships that came too close to it.
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Charybdis was a huge whirlpool that wrecked ships
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In Greek mythology, the Charybdis was a whirlpool formed by a monster of the same name on one side of the narrow straits of Messina, Sicily, opposite the monster Scylla.
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HMS Charybdis was a British Dido Class cruiser of 5450 tons displacement launched in 1940. HMS Charybdis was powered by Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 33 knots. Armaments consisted of ten 5.25-inch guns, six mounted in three twin super firing turrets and four aft; sixteen smaller guns and six 21-inch torpedo tubes arranged i...
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n] - (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
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daughter of Poseidon and Gaia, a monster associated with a whirlpool who lived on a rock near Messina.
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noun (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
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In Greek mythology, a monster and the whirlpool it forms, on the Sicilian side of the northern end of the narrow Straits of Messina, opposite the sea monster Scylla. Charybdis lived under a huge fig tree, swallowing the sea and regurgitating it three times a day
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Female monster; personification of whirlpool.
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a whirlpool in the Strait of Messina off the NE coast of Sicily. Modern, · a daughter of Gaea and Poseidon, a monster mentioned in Homer and later identified with the whirlpool Charybdis. Cf. Scylla (def. 2).
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The Odyssey) - Basically a giant whirlpool
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