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hippodame

hippodame noun: a sea horse or hippocampus.

Noun

hippodame (plural hippodames)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A sea horse or hippocampus.
    • on every syde / They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, / That his swift charet might have passage wyde / Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Nor did less tumult swell the late defeat Of monstrous Dagon, from whom, worse deformed With hippodame and kraken, self -assumed, So spirits can, turned infantry and steed, Nor chose the ambush of his doubtful shape.1851, William Wilberforce Lord, Christ in Hades

Forms of hippodame

pluralhippodames

Origin of hippodame

By confusion with hippotame.

Questions about hippodame

What does hippodame mean?
Hippodame means a sea horse or hippocampus.
What part of speech is hippodame?
Hippodame is a noun.
What is the plural of hippodame?
The plural of hippodame is hippodames.

Words near hippodame in the dictionary

  1. Hippocrenean
  2. Hippocrenian
  3. hippocrepian
  4. hippocrepians
  5. hippocrepiform
  6. hippodame
  7. Hippodamea
  8. Hippodameia
  9. hippodames
  10. Hippodamia
  11. Hippodamian

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