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hippogriffin

hippogriffin is the alternative form of hippogriff.

Meaning of hippogriff

Noun

hippogriff (plural hippogriffs)

  1. a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
    • To talk of being able to ride with stirrups, is trifling: get on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph, or mount the white nag in the Revelation.1732, July 18, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., volume 12 published 1801, page 478

Forms of hippogriffin

pluralhippogriffins

Questions about hippogriffin

What is hippogriffin the alternative form of?
Hippogriffin is the alternative form of hippogriff.

Words near hippogriffin in the dictionary

  1. hippodromists
  2. Hippodromo
  3. hippogonal
  4. hippograss
  5. hippogriff
  6. hippogriffin
  7. hippogriffins
  8. hippogriffs
  9. hippogryph
  10. hippogryphs
  11. hippoid

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