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androsphinx

[ an-druh-sfingks ]

noun

plural androsphinxes, androsphinges
  1. a sphinx with the head of a man.


androsphinx

/ ˈæ²Ô»å°ùəˌ²õ´Úɪŋ°ì²õ /

noun

  1. a sphinx having the head of a man
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Origin of androsphinx1

From Greek, dating back to 1600–10; andro-, sphinx
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Sometimes the androsphinx has human hands in place of the lion's paws.

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He stood looking up at a pair of bronze griffins that crouched on the top of the rosewood bookcase, and the gas-light falling full on his face, showed his stern, massive features, which, in their granitic cast, reminded Edna of those Egyptian Androsphinx—vast, serene, changeless.

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