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griffon

/grif-uhn/US // ˈgrɪf ən //UK // (ˈɡrɪfən) //

狮鹫,狮鹫号,狮头鹰,狮鹫座

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a vulture of the genus Gyps, especially G. fulvus, of southern Europe.

Examples

  • “Pea Tear Griffon” is singing what goes up must come down while reading Nathaniel Hawthorne.

  • The illustration represents one of the rocky gorges so plentiful in Palestine, inhabited by a number of Griffon Vultures.

  • Or have you the griffon vulture's wings that you may fly over mountains?

  • A thousand desires hotter than flame bound my eyes to the relucent eyes which only upon the griffon were standing fixed.

  • V'l le griffon qui prend une voltigeante pour broder sur du mince.

  • His Majesty brought with him his little griffon dog, and immediately on arriving he asked for port wine and sandwiches.