1. (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned

Type of: mythical being

Encyclopedia: Icarus

• periscopic
• periselene
• perish
• perishability
• perishable
• perishableness
• perisher
• Perisoreus
• Perisoreus canadensis
• Perisoreus canadensis capitalis
• perisperm
• perissodactyl
• perissodactyl mammal
• Perissodactyla
• peristalsis
• peristaltic
• Peristediinae
• Peristedion
• Peristedion miniatum
• peristome
• peristylar
• peristyle
• perithecium
• perithelial
• perithelium