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Answer for the clue "(Greek mythology) 3-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades ", 8 letters:
cerberus

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Cerberus (common name dog-faced water snakes ) is a small genus of water snakes in the family Colubridae . Member species are common inhabitants of Southeast Asia 's mangrove habitat and mudflats . Its name is that of the dog-like Greek mythological creature ...

Usage examples of cerberus.

Cerberus Systems were gathered on Alegria IV, all but one of them present in person.

Lord Beelzebub, the Lord Lucifer, the Lord Legion, the Lord Apollyon, the Lord Python, the Lord Cerberus, and the Lord Belial.

The bioengineering tour de force that had created Cerberi had also screwed up their hereditary instincts.

A well-built stranger wearing the white bodysuit of Cerberus duty personnel followed them.

It was quite necessary that the man should be hale and hearty, for it was his business to grapple with the Fijian Cerberus in the other world, while his majesty slipped past into the abode of bliss.

Their first line of attack was the sophisticated communications technology that allowed them to listen verbatim to the interbank conversations carried on between Cerberus and its computer brethren around the world.

Cerberus found it for him easily enough, but it was a steep sidehill lie in the tall heather.

Comsat kept track of Cerberus personnel when they were away from the redoubt through telemetric signals relayed by subcutaneous transponders.

Southerly, near a broad shallow river, was allied to us by force the country of Tolteca, which I knew would march anywhere at my will, were I to point into the grinning mouths of Cerberus.

Shouts of laughter rent the air, which had such an intimidating effect on Eazas and Cerberus that not all the adjurations of the exorcists could extract the slightest response.

Thus when I was pleasantly mocked and taunted by Fotis, I sayd unto her, verily now may I for this atcheived enterprise be numbered as Hercules, who by his valiant prowesse performed the twelve notable Labors, as Gerion with three bodies, and as Cerberus with three heads, for I have slaine three blown goat skinnes.

The executive tended to make a painful example of those accused of offenses against the thronelike feeding the miscreant piecemeal to a Cerberus, or simmering him slowly in cooking oil, with full medical support to keep him alive and conscious until the last possible moment.

Before the white-coated, faceless men and women of Project Cerberus had trawled him into the future.

Brigid had been very surprised to learn that Cerberus was uplinked with a Vela-class reconnaissance satellite, as well as with Comsat communications.

He did not see the Thalassa launch that pulled away from the island, pitching and yawing, the outboard cavitating with each plunge as it struggled toward the boarding hatch on the far side of the Cerberus.