sphinx

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an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret

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(Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body

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one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians

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And lynges is truly elegant--one sphinx, a row of sphinges; one lynx, a litter of lynges."
Foxen in the Henhice
(15) "Este genero de pintura se haze con unos compartimentos, listones y follajes, figuras de medio sierpes, medio hombres, syrenas, sphinges, minotauros" (661).
Nero's Golden House: Italian Art and the Grotesque in Don Quijote, Part II (1)
On asymmetry in the males of hemarine and other sphinges. Trans.
A new genus and species of Urodidae (Lepidoptera: Urodoidea) from Argentina with the first report of asymmetric male genitalia in the superfamily
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