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bel·ler·o·phon \bəˈlerəˌfän, -_fən\ noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Bellerophon, mythological character who slew the Chimera with the help of Pegasus, from Latin, from Greek Bellerophōn : a genus (the type of the family Bellerophontidae) of extinct Palaeozoic gastropod mollusks having a somewhat loosely coiled plain spiral shell and often placed in the superfamily Bellerophontacea of the Aspidobranchia • bel·ler·o·phont \-ˌfänt\ adjective or noun |