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Definition of hippogriff in English: hippogriff(also hippogryph) noun ˈhɪpə(ʊ)ɡrɪfˈhɪpəˌɡrɪf A mythical creature with the body of a horse and the wings and head of an eagle, born of the union of a male griffin and a filly. Example sentencesExamples - The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold.
- Unlike chimeras or hippogriffs, dragons were much stronger, fiercer, and generally harder to kill.
- Nor were there airplanes - hippogriffs were the only method of aerial transportation.
- The hero, Roger, is a knight who rides a mythical animal, a hippogriff (a winged horse that has talons and the beak of a hawk).
- When flying directly over Fyynatis on the back of a hippogriff, you may catch a glimpse of fire within its depths.
- The coffin shattered into a million pieces while the hind legs and the wings of the hippogriff vaporized.
- Gronauer led them to five empty stalls, right next to each other, and situated the hippogriffs in their new home.
- Dad says I can have the hippogriff's head.
- She marveled the effortless beating of the hippogriff's wings, the speed at which the water passed under them.
- She only had a sarcastic and cynical servant, and a touchy hippogriff.
- Despite an advantage in source material, Cuaron still makes his talent evident, and, like Harry riding bareback on the hippogriff, soars.
- I'll take a shower, change, throw these out, and we'll get my hippogriff.
- As a griffin/centaur, the hippogriff, too, suggests Christ's divine conquest of the passions, as evidenced by his donkey ride into Jerusalem.
- The hippogriff threw her back against the rock.
- He then, mounted on the hippogriff, rescues Angelica from the Orc.
- From it, blown green glass dolphins supported a smaller basin from which sprang bizarre blown-glass hippogriffs.
- He cannot perform spells, but his magic power is so great that we can feed from it and defeat the hippogriffs.
Origin Mid 17th century: from French hippogriffe, from Italian ippogrifo, from Greek hippos 'horse' + Italian grifo 'griffin'. Definition of hippogriff in US English: hippogriff(also hippogryph) nounˈhipəˌɡrifˈhɪpəˌɡrɪf A mythical creature with the body of a horse and the wings and head of an eagle, born of the union of a male griffin and a filly. Example sentencesExamples - When flying directly over Fyynatis on the back of a hippogriff, you may catch a glimpse of fire within its depths.
- I'll take a shower, change, throw these out, and we'll get my hippogriff.
- As a griffin/centaur, the hippogriff, too, suggests Christ's divine conquest of the passions, as evidenced by his donkey ride into Jerusalem.
- She marveled the effortless beating of the hippogriff's wings, the speed at which the water passed under them.
- He cannot perform spells, but his magic power is so great that we can feed from it and defeat the hippogriffs.
- Nor were there airplanes - hippogriffs were the only method of aerial transportation.
- Dad says I can have the hippogriff's head.
- Gronauer led them to five empty stalls, right next to each other, and situated the hippogriffs in their new home.
- The hippogriff threw her back against the rock.
- Unlike chimeras or hippogriffs, dragons were much stronger, fiercer, and generally harder to kill.
- She only had a sarcastic and cynical servant, and a touchy hippogriff.
- He then, mounted on the hippogriff, rescues Angelica from the Orc.
- The hero, Roger, is a knight who rides a mythical animal, a hippogriff (a winged horse that has talons and the beak of a hawk).
- From it, blown green glass dolphins supported a smaller basin from which sprang bizarre blown-glass hippogriffs.
- The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold.
- The coffin shattered into a million pieces while the hind legs and the wings of the hippogriff vaporized.
- Despite an advantage in source material, Cuaron still makes his talent evident, and, like Harry riding bareback on the hippogriff, soars.
Origin Mid 17th century: from French hippogriffe, from Italian ippogrifo, from Greek hippos ‘horse’ + Italian grifo ‘griffin’. |