Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A marine creature having the head and forelegs of a horse and the body and tail of a dolphin or fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hippocampus , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
hippocampus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Greek mythology A
mythological creature, a cross between ahorse and afish .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Latin, from Greek hippokampos : hippos, horse; see ekwo- in Indo-European roots + kampos, sea monster.]
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Examples
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We saw at the same place the hippocamp and eagle stone, both very curious and rare.
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Scarcely had she departed when a gigantic hippocamp was seen in the distance, making its way towards the Argo.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens
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