| 释义 |
Pegasus /pegˈə-səs/ noun- The winged horse that sprang from Medusa's blood, by later writers associated with the Muses (Gr myth)
- Hence, an embodiment of the power that raises a poet's imagination above the earth
- (without cap) a member of a genus (Pegasus) of small fishes superficially like seahorses, of the coastal waters of Asia and Australia, with large, winglike, pectoral fins
- One of the constellations in the northern sky
ORIGIN: L Pēgasus, from Gr Pēgasos Pegasēˈan adjective |