Mythical — very famous

Usage examples of legendary.

He wound up on the Beach at Sigma End, where he hung out with guys like the legendary Billy Anker, at that time obsessed with Radio RX1.

Many are the indications that our autocthonous predecessors saw a very great deal of the intimate habits of the flora and the fauna and the avifauna, and spoke freely of them, and attributed in their legendary many of these habitsmuch of the particular form and colour, and even habitat, to the influences of supernatural beings and occurrences.

Naylor knew that he had been, in his day, one hell of a Green Beanie, a contemporary of the legendary Scotty McNab.

If he learns that we are bound for Bodach, he might be tempted to join us and search for the legendary treasure.

Deluge holds so considerable a place in the legendary memories of all branches of the Aryan race, the monuments and original texts of Egypt, with their many cosmogonic speculations, have not afforded one, even distant, allusion to this cataclysm.

The deaths of Dagh Illance and the others had already become tales of renown and heroics, in which each survivor had a story of his own legendary ability in the face of the orcish hordes.

From the Bombay thorn apple comes the legendary potion of India, dhatura, which can stupefy, paralyze, or kill, depending upon the dosage, but which can also produce a medicine with remarkable effect upon internal bleeding and fever.

And Dracunculus, the legendary fiery serpent, will cut a swath from digestive tract to epidermis, erupting from the skin in a blaze of necrotic glory.

Day, a legendary leather bridge, two sacks full of yellow gold from the days of the Hussite incursions, and a capricious water nymph: Thula Duller Tul.

Even his legendary eidetic memory would be unable to cope with the present confusion.

The best-beloved tall tales swapped at night in the nursery revolved around the legendary Fewmets Ferkkin, who had tried to breed a totally clean dragon, a dragon that took in at one end but never gave out at the other.

He had indeed been to legendary lands, and he badly wanted to explain to Frain the ways of the All-Mother.

The ancient Greek trail continued westward, where it had been cut centuries earlier by the Sciara del Fuoco, the legendary Slope of Fire.

Euler and Gauss were legendary miners-long-dead fleshers, but their skills had rarely been equaled.

Prefect for the Sacra Congregatio pro Gentium Evangelizatione se de Propaganda Fide -- the legendary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, or De Propaganda Fide.