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Typhoeus

/ taɪˈfiːəs /

noun

  1. Greek myth the son of Gaea and Tartarus who had a hundred dragon heads, which spurted fire, and a bellowing many-tongued voice. He created the whirlwinds and fought with Zeus before the god hurled him beneath Mount Etna
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • Tyˈphoean, adjective
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Example Sentences

Typhoeus was a hundred-headed monster slain by Jupiter and buried under Prochyta and Arime.

Thus did Æneas deal death through the host, even as he had been the giant Typhoeus with the hundred hands.

In Typhoeus and Megascolex there are complex glands appended to the intestine.

There is no other mention in ancient literature of the fight between Hercules and Typhoeus.

The clays of thy life are ended, neither can Typhoeus himself aid thee now, nor Chimæra of the evil name.

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