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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hippocampus

(4 syl.). A seahorse, having the head and fore-quarters of a horse, with the tail and hind-quarters of a fish or dolphin. (Greek, hippos, a horse; kampos, a sea monster.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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