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Gryf (fictional dinosaur)

The Gryf is a fictional creature, a carnivorous Triceratops invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his fantasy novel Tarzan the Terrible. Other members of the Triceratops species were strictly herbivorous and became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period, around 65 million years ago. The Gryf survived the extinction event and mutated from a plant eater to a very dangerous predator. The Gryf has appeared in comic strips by Russ Manning.

Usage examples of "gryf".

He and Gryf, who was on the third shift, had both been all right when she got off duty.

She could not put aside her anxiety, and knew she would not until she had seen and spoken to and touched both Gryf and Jason.

Below, Gryf would be standing in the group of prisoners near the drilling rig.

Gryf was the first tetraparental Kylis had ever seen or heard of, and even among tetras Gryf was unusual.

But the sets of sperm and ova had been matched wrong, so the mixture of two embryos forming Gryf made him his strange paisley pattern.

Without seeming to, the Lizard was watching Gryf closely, padding by every so often in his stealthy, silent way, his close-set eyes heavy-lidded, the direction of his gaze impossible to determine.

But eventually his duties took him to another part of the camp, and Kylis left her own work to tell Gryf the tricks experience had taught her to make the labor a little easier.

She knew Gryf was below somewhere, though she could not make him out in the blotch of dirty white.

Kylis could imagine him standing in shadow, watching, while Gryf waited for a confrontation that never came.

She did not know how to feel about her newly discovered pleasure in the company of Gryf and Jason.

His first day here, Gryf had kept him from being killed or crippled at least twice.

But Gryf was half-carrying the big clumsy man, so she supported him on the other side.

She was willing to help Gryf save an old friend, though she did not quite see how they would do it.

What Gryf had responded to in his work was a pure idealism and innocence that could not exist in captivity.

When Gryf finally got off, they would have less than one day together, even before he rested.