Crossword clues for manticore
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mantichora \mantichora\, manticora \manticora\, manticore \manticore\n. A mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion.
Syn: manticore, mantichora, mantiger.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fabulous monster with the body of a lion, head of a man, porcupine quills, and tail or sting of a scorpion, c.1300, from Latin manticora, from Greek mantikhoras, corruption of martikhoras, perhaps from Iranian compound *mar-tiya-khvara "man-eater;" first element represented by Old Persian maritya- "man" (from PIE *mar-t-yo-, from *mer- "to die," thus "mortal, human;" see mortal (adj.)); second element by Old Persian kvar- "to eat," from PIE root *swel- (1) "to eat, drink" (see swallow (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. (''Persian mythology''), (context Greek mythology English) A beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey. May be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets.
WordNet
n. a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion [syn: mantichora, manticora, mantiger]
Wikipedia
The manticore ( Early Middle Persian Mardyakhor) is a Persian legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), sometimes bat-like wings, and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both. The tail is that of either a dragon or a scorpion, and it may shoot venomous spines to either paralyze or kill its victims. It devours its prey whole and leaves no clothes, bones, or possessions of the prey behind.
The manticore is similar to the satyral, a legendary creature with "the body of a lion, the tail and horns of an antelope, and the face of an old man". Another similar creature is the lampago, a "man tiger". Dennys writes "Many have held the Manticore (with some latitude over its spelling), the Mantyger, the Satyral and the Lampago to be one and the same creature; others have differentiated them."
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the manticore is a large magical beast with the body of a lion, dragon wings, and a somewhat humanoid head. It is based on the mythological manticore.
A manticore is a mythical creature similar to a chimera.
Manticore can also refer to:
- Manticore (Dungeons & Dragons), a creature in the Dungeons & Dragons RPG system, based on the mythical creature
- Manticore Records, a music label
- Manticore (City of Heroes), a character from the video game City of Heroes
- Manticore (Honorverse), a fictional planet in David Weber's science fiction Honorverse novels
- The Manticore, a novel by Robertson Davies
- Manticore (Boogiepop), a character from Boogiepop and Others
- Manticore (film), a 2005 Sci Fi Pictures original film
- Manticore, a fictional secret governmental organization in the television series Dark Angel
- Manticore (DC Comics), a super-villain in the DC Comics universe.
- Manticore, an artillery tank used by the Imperial Guard in the tabletop game ' Warhammer 40,000'.
- "Manticore", a song by Ninja Sex Party from their 2011 album NSFW
Manticore is a Sci-Fi original movie that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel on November 26, 2005. It was directed by Tripp Reed and featured Heather Donahue, Chase Masterson and Robert Beltran. It is about a squad of United States Army soldiers in Iraq that must fight against a resurrected, nearly unstoppable manticore awoken from its slumber by an Iraqi insurgent leader.
Manticore, in comics, may refer to:
- Manticore (City of Heroes), a character from the comic based on the video game City of Heroes
- Manticore (DC Comics), a supervillain in the DC Comics universe
Manticore is the name of a number of DC Comics characters, three of whom were members of The Jihad.
Usage examples of "manticore".
Silesian Sector thanks to the astrographic accident of the Manticore Junction.
Manticore, and the system astrography is going to leave Sphinx especially exposed.
Timothy Mears had hopped the same shuttle flight back to Manticore with his Admiral, and he laughed out loud.
But I tell you as an engineer what you ought to know better than I do, that sort of work is no more related to unbinding locks and stealing vehicles than a minestrone is to a manticore.
T-shirt was made of a high-tech high-density microfiber material, uncommon outside of Manticore and a few Sollie systems, that absorbed much of the blow from the light-weight needles and stubbornly resisted penetration.
Dennis Frampton, his previous personal steward, had been born and raised in the Duchy of Madison on the planet Manticore, and his accent had been smooth, with rounded vowels quite unlike the sharp crispness of Sphinxians like Agnelli.
As such, I took the precaution of consulting our library about the Star Kingdom of Manticore when your ship first contacted us.
The hope is that if our escort ships can stay in the Confederacy longer without having to return to Manticore for supplies and replacement parts, we can guard our convoys more efficiently.
Sambatyon, in the rocky wastes where chimeras and manticores were waiting, and some of the nubians had had the joy of meeting the same end as Abdul.
It was always possible that a bloodbath on Medusa would be grist for the Liberal/Progressive mill and wake such revulsion in Parliament as to enable the anti-annexationists to finally get Manticore entirely off the planet.
As it touched her dark shoulders, it at once assumed weight and substance, and became a miraculous cloak, arcanely worked with embroidered symbols of manticores, rocs, krakens, one-eyed giants, and other monstrous beasts and prodigies.
Courtesy of a few backdoors the new management still hasn't found yet, I was able to track the file to his account and also when he pulled it back out after his own arrival from Manticore and lodged it in the secure database of his attorney's law firm.
Courtesy of a few backdoors the new management still hasn’t found yet, I was able to track the file to his account and also when he pulled it back out after his own arrival from Manticore and lodged it in the secure database of his attorney’s law firm.
Even Sandler's own report had conceded it would have taken a miracle for Manticore to have kept up the deception long enough for Haven to commit any serious resources to the Crippler project.
And, if I may anticipate a part of your point, I should point out that Manticore has a tradition of detaching officers to assist allied powers, and they've already lent us a large number of personnel.