Word.ws English Dictionary

Stymphalides

Stymphalides noun: in Greek mythology, a flock of metallic man-eating birds that haunted Lake Stymphalis in Arkadia. They were slain by Herakles as part of his sixth Labour, who took advantage of their sensitive sense of hearing.

Noun

Stymphalides pl (plural only)

  1. (Greek, plural, plural-only) In Greek mythology, a flock of metallic man-eating birds that haunted Lake Stymphalis in Arkadia. They were slain by Herakles as part of his sixth Labour, who took advantage of their sensitive sense of hearing.

Origin of Stymphalides

From Latin Stymphālides, from Ancient Greek Στυμφαλίδες ὄρνιθες (Stumphalídes órnithes, “birds of Stymphalus”).

Questions about Stymphalides

What does Stymphalides mean?
Stymphalides means in Greek mythology, a flock of metallic man-eating birds that haunted Lake Stymphalis in Arkadia. They were slain by Herakles as part of his sixth Labour, who took advantage of their sensitive sense of hearing.
What part of speech is Stymphalides?
Stymphalides is a noun.

Words near Stymphalides in the dictionary

  1. Stymphalia
  2. Stymphalian
  3. Stymphalian bird
  4. Stymphalian birds
  5. Stymphalians
  6. Stymphalides
  7. Stymphalus
  8. stymy
  9. stymying
  10. stype
  11. stypes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Stymphalides (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Stymphalides.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stymphalides. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.