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Manticore vs Hippogriff - What's the difference?

manticore | hippogriff |

As nouns the difference between manticore and hippogriff

is that manticore is (persian mythology ), (greek mythology) a beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey may be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets while hippogriff is a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.

manticore

English

(wikipedia manticore)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Persian mythology ), (Greek mythology) A beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey. May be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets.

    • hippogriff

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hippogryph

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
  • * 1732 , July 18, , The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. , volume 12 published 1801, page 478:
    • To talk of being able to ride with stirrups, is trifling: get on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph , or mount the white nag in the Revelation.
  • * 1753 , November 12, , published with English translation in 1779 in Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope , second edition, volume 3, lettre LXXIII, pages 298–299:
    • Je crains done qu'il faudra que nous nous contentions de quelque moyen plus simple et plus facile, comme d'un enchanteur à gages, un hippogriffe , ou au moins de quelque génie bienfaisant, …
    So I doubt we must be content with some more simple and easy method, such as a magician in our pay, a hippogryph , or at least some kind genius, …
  • * 1800 Dec., Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine , Volume 10, No. 66, page 407:
    • Yet the work is surely not a mere map of the hippogryffon wanderings of some disordered imagination…
  • * 1831 , The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal , volume 52, page 164:
    • I imagine a Hippogryph'. The '''Hippogryph''' is at once the object of the act and the act itself. Abstract the one, the other has no existence: deny me the consciousness of the ' Hippogryph , you deny me the consciousness of the imagination; I am conscious of zero; I am not conscious at all.