gryfon

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A form of griffin — A mythical creature with the body of a lion and head and wings of an eagle.

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Meanings

noungryfon (plural gryfons)

plural gryfons

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of griffin.

    So th'one for wrong , the other strives for right : As when a gryfon , seized of his pray , A dragon fiers encountreth in his flight

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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