1. (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned

Type of: mythical being

Encyclopedia: Icarus

• Florentine iris
• Florenz Ziegfeld
• florescence
• florescent
• florest's cineraria
• floret
• Florey
• floriated
• floricultural
• floriculture
• floriculturist
• florid
• Florida
• Florida arrowroot
• Florida bean
• Florida gallinule
• Florida key
• Florida pompano
• florida selaginella
• Florida smoothhound
• Florida strangler fig
• Florida strap fern
• Florida water rat
• Florida yew
• Floridian