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单词 manticore
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
man•ti•core  (manti kôr′, -kōr′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Mythologya legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
  • man-eating; probably ultimately alluding to the tiger, once common in the Caspian Sea region
  • Iranian; compare Old Persian martiya- man, Avestan xvar- devour, Persian mardom-khar
  • Greek, erroneous reading for martichó̄ras
  • Latin mantichōrās
  • Middle English 1300–50

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
manticore /ˈmæntɪˌkɔː/ n
  1. a monster with a lion's body, a scorpion's tail, and a man's head with three rows of teeth. It roamed the jungles of India and, like the Sphinx, would ask travellers a riddle and kill them when they failed to answer it
Etymology: C21: from Latin manticora, from Greek mantichōrās, corruption of martichorās, from Persian mardkhora man-eater
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