griffin

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On the left arm, the mythical griffin creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle appears to be fighting with a stag.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

You can’t have a lot of body horror in a kid’s movie, but you can have a topiary griffin who torrentially evacuates dead leaves across the backyard in a beautiful, disgusting arc.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2018

At first she believed it to be some kind of mythical creature, a California version of a minotaur or a griffin.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2018

History will show whether they got what they needed waiting as long as they did — 13 other cornerbacks were selected before the Seahawks took griffin.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2017

It cuffed them all into silence, and they watched the griffin pounce upon the butterfly and miss.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell