MYTHICAL CREATURE Synonyms

• (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance

• ancient brass cannon

• small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• a cruelly rapacious person

• the state or fact of existing

• a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

• a conspicuous constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the Southern Cross

• (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse

• a grotesque product of the imagination

• (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• a living being

• a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

• minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms

• (Greek mythology) one of a group of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead

• a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

• a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

• a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

• any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

• below 3 kilohertz

• (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

• a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below

• a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

• a short pithy saying expressing a general truth

• (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings

• winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion

• a malicious woman with a fierce temper

• (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman

• any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

• large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America

• an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien

• the largest or most massive thing of its kind

• monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament

• half woman and half fish; lives in the sea

• (Greek mythology) a mythical monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain by Theseus

• the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation

• a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa

• a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor

• a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years