gryphon

British  

/ ˈɡrɪfən /

noun

1. a variant of griffin 1

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Example Sentences

One newspaperman described the megalosaurus, the greatest of the “antediluvian monsters,” as a scaly dragon with the “head of a gryphon” and an “eye as big as a cheese-cake.”

From New York Times

Sunday, the team flew the Iranian flag at their station next to the flag of Team Gryphon — a black flag with a purple silhouette of the gryphon — as a sign of their unlikely partnership.

From Washington Post

Or is it a mythical creature, a gryphon, more there to be tracked than ever finally treed?

From Los Angeles Times

Originally called the Laramie Plains Civic Center Auditorium Center, the stage was renamed the Gryphon Theatre based on the gryphons in the archway on either side of the stage.

From Washington Times

He describes Sir Thomas Browne’s compendium of real and imaginary creatures: the chameleon, the salamander, the ostrich, the gryphon and the phoenix, the basilisk, the unicorn, and the amphisbaena, the serpent with two heads.

From Salon