a whirlpool in the Strait of Messina off the NE coast of Sicily. Modern, Galofalo, Garofalo.
2.
Classical Mythology. a daughter of Gaea and Poseidon, a monster mentioned in Homer and later identified with the whirlpool Charybdis. Compare Scylla(def. 2).
[kuh-rib-dis] 
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