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VerbarMonoceros

A one horned creature a unicorn a sea monster with one horn...

Minotaur

A fabled monster half man and half bull confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daeligdalus in Crete...

mantichora

A mythical monster having the head of man with horns and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion...

Lamia

A monster capable of assuming a womans form who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood a vampire a sorceress a witch...

Kraken

A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster often represented as resembling an island but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus...

Hideous

Frightful shocking or offensive to the eyes dreadful to behold as a hideous monster hideous looks...

A fabulous monster with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish Hippocampus brevirostris seen in Pompeian paintings attached to the chariot of Neptune...

Headed

Furnished with a head commonly as denoting intellectual faculties used in composition as clear headed long headed thick headed a many headed monster...

Harpy

A fabulous winged monster ravenous and filthy having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture with long claws and the face pale with hunger Some writers mention two others three...

Gila monster

A large tuberculated lizard Heloderma suspectum native of the dry plains of Arizona New Mexico etc It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth...

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