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

Derived Forms

• Tyˈphoean, adjective

Example Sentences

Klimt painted it onto the walls in 1902 for the Secession’s 14th exhibition, depicting floating genies, a knight in shining armor, a giant Typhoeus monster of Greek myth and a choir of angels.

From New York Times

From the first has come forth a strength that led and still leads to fearful revolution: for in all socialistic upheavals it is ever Rousseau's man who is the Typhoeus under the Etna.

From Project Gutenberg

She is somehow connected with the fable of the birth of the monster Typhoeus, son of Hera without a father.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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