WordNet
n. a monster renowned in folklore and myth [syn: mythical monster]
Usage examples of "mythical creature".
She had about her the aspect of a mythical creature, as if I might find hooves and a tail instead of feet and bare buttocks beneath her black cotton trousers and combat boots.
The notion of some sort of abstract right and wrong, so that when the somehow wrong mythical creature under the bridge gets what the humans might describe as his just deserts at the horns of the triumphing biggest right creature—.
That odd-looking mythical creature with his human head and his animal body has always been a riddle, unlike the rest of us.
Vermin pulled the knife away from my throat to warily study the mythical creature.
It seemed to caress him as if, with a life of its own, it was part of some mythical creature-a Qilin, perhaps.
For years he had gathered endowments, sought to become the Sum of All Men, that mythical creature that could become immortal.
What is so controversial about this mysterious, possibly mythical creature that anybody who knows anything about it gets targeted for destruction?
He must be mad, no sane person would possibly believe that she was ignorant enough, or stupid enough, to believe in some mythical creature that had its only existence in the minds of gullible fools.