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Androsphinx

Androsphinx \An"dro*sphinx\ ([a^]n"dr[-o]*sf[i^][ng]ks), n. [Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + sfi`gx sphinx.] (Egypt. Art.) A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion.

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androsphinx

n. A sphinx with the head of a man.

Usage examples of "androsphinx".

I mean, how are we going to snare her a nice androsphinx if she stays stuck inside with her books all day every day?

Stone colossi marched in endless night and drove herds of grinning androsphinxes down to the shores of illimitable stagnant rivers of pitch.

Then when some autarch (though they were not called autarchs then) hoped to recapture the dominion exercised by the first empire, they were gathered up by his servants, white-robed men who ransacked cocklofts and threw down the androsphinxes erected to memorialize the machines and entered the cubicula of moiraic women long dead.

Stone colossi marched in endless night and drove herds of grinning androsphinxes down to the shores of illimitable stagnant rivers of pitch.