[min-uh-tawr] 
| 1. | Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it. |
| 2. | any person or thing that devours or destroys. |
| Min·o·taur (mĭn'ə-tôr', mī'nə-) n. Greek Mythology A monster who was half man and half bull, to whom young Athenian men and women were sacrificed in the Cretan labyrinth until Theseus killed him. |
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