hippogriff

American  

[hip-uh-grif] / ˈhɪp əˌgrɪf /

Or hippogryph

noun

1. a fabulous creature resembling a griffin but having the body and hind parts of a horse.

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hippogriff British  

/ ˈhɪpəʊˌɡrɪf /

noun

1. a monster of Greek mythology with a griffin's head, wings, and claws and a horse's body

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Etymology

Origin of hippogriff

1645–55; earlier hippogryph, Latinized < Italian ippogrifo. See hippo-, griffin ¹

Example Sentences

The attraction, the second outdoor coaster at the park after the more kid-focused “Harry Potter” ride Flight of the Hippogriff, was timed at running about two minutes around the track, which goes over and under the park’s famed hillside escalators.

From Los Angeles Times

By comparison, the family coaster Flight of the Hippogriff is only about a minute, whereas Disney California Adventure’s Incredicoaster comes in at more than 2 and a half minutes.

From Los Angeles Times

The arrows were taken from the quills of a manticore’s tail, fletched with feathers from a hippogriff, and tipped with karkadann poison.

From Literature

His touchstone for a fantastical creature that successfully achieved believability was the Hippogriff, a winged four-legged creature seen in 2004’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.”

From Los Angeles Times

That is the subtitle of “Keyframes for a Hippogriff,” the sprawling, chaotic explosion of postmodernism that the New York Philharmonic played on Saturday evening at David Geffen Hall, conducted by Thomas Sondergard.

From New York Times