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Gryphon   Listen
noun
Griffon, Griffin  n.  
1.
(Myth.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.
2.
(Her.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.
3.
(Zool.) A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir. (Written also gryphon)
4.
An English early apple.


Gryphon  n.  (Zool.) The griffin vulture.





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"Gryphon" Quotes from Famous Books



... the crevices of air; and the smiles of immortal beauty flushed like sunlight over all. Thus the adventure and the glory that I could not for my waking life obtain, was obtained for me in sleep. I wandered with the gryphon and the gnome; I sounded the horn at enchanted portals; I conquered in the knightly lists; I planted my standard over battlements huge as the painter's birth ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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