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hip⋅po⋅griff

  [hip-uh-grif]
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–noun
a fabulous creature resembling a griffin but having the body and hind parts of a horse.
Also, hip⋅po⋅gryph.

Origin:
1645–55; earlier hippogryph, Latinized < It ippogrifo. See hippo-, griffin 1
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hippogriff 
1656, from Fr. hippogriffe (16c.), from It. ippogrifo, from Gk. hippos "horse" + It. grifo, from L.L. gryphus "griffin" (see griffin). A creature part griffin, but with body and hind parts in the form of a horse.
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