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The hippogriff is a legendary creature which resembles a winged horse with the head and upper body of an eagle. The first recorded mention of the hippogriff was made by the Latin poet Virgil in his Eclogues. Though sometimes depicted during the Classical Era and during the rule of the Merovingians, it was first named and defined by Ludovico Ariost...
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• (n.) A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.
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a legendary animal that has the foreparts of a winged griffin and the body and hindquarters of a horse. The creature was invented by Ludovico Ariosto ...
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Fabulous animal in the shape of a winged horse with the head of a griffin. It was described by the Italian poet Ariosto in his Orlando furioso 1516. ...
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Hip'po·griff noun [ French
hippogriffe ; confer Italian
ippogrifo . See
Hippopotamus ,
Griffon .]
(Myth.) A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.
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The hippogriff is a fabulous animal, half horse and half griffon or eagle. The hippogriff is depicted as having the body and hindquarters of a horse, and the wings and head of an eagle.
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hippogriff, hippogryph A mythological beast with the wings, head, and claws of a griffin (head and wings of an eagle), and the hoofs and tail of a horse.
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a fabulous creature resembling a griffin but having the body and hind parts of a horse.
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