hippocamp
Sign in to saveAlso known as hippocampus, hippokampoi, hippocamps, hippocampi, sea-horse
mythological creature in Phoenician and Greek mythology
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Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937) The hippocampus, or hippocamp, (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος hippókampos, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster') is a mythological creature mentioned in Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician, Pictish and Roman mythologies (though its name has a clear Greek origin), typically depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.
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