[hip-uh-kreen, hip-uh-kree-nee] 
| a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration. |
| Hip·po·crene (hĭp'ə-krēn', hĭp'ə-krē'nē) n. Greek Mythology A fountain on Mount Helicon, Greece, sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration. [Latin Hippocrēnē, from Greek Hippokrēnē : hippos, horse (from the myth that Pegasus's hoof created it); see ekwo- in Indo-European roots + krēnē, fountain.] |
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