strix
IPA: strˈɪks
noun
- (mythology) A bird-like demon feeding on human flesh and blood.
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Examples of "strix" in Sentences
- It belongs to the earless owl genus Strix.
- Endemol format's in cooperation with Strix.
- STRIX is fired like a conventional mortar round.
- The Traditories were accused of serving the Strix.
- This was the explantation for the mythological Strix.
- Strix suggests that I am suffering from an hallucination.
- Provost of Lancaster College and member of the board of Strix.
- Hoole made Strix Strumajen the ryb of the first weathering chaw.
- The vampiric strix of Roman mythology was in part based on the owl.
- Romans called the owl strix pl. striges, the same word that meant "witch."
- Though descriptions abound, the concept of the strix was nonetheless vague.
- Another kind of screech owl (strix) has its name from its strident (stridet) call.
- Some folks at strix. org.uk responded by creating a "Shocked Robin" cover generator.
- semper, et tectis strix uiolenta canat: ipsa fame stimulante furens herbasque sepulcris
- Among the birds that are found here, are the eagle, various species, (falco); owl (strix); king bird
- Of moths, too, there are great numbers, -- among them, the Erebus strix, the largest of its family, sometimes measuring nearly a foot in expanse of wing.
- The ‘strix’ is supposed to have been the screech owl, and was a favorite bird with the enchanters, who were supposed to have the power of assuming that form.
- But the Juillard Dictionnaire Inverse de la Langue Française lists twenty rhymes, among them bombyx, hélix, prolixe, and strix; and we may add the great name of Vercingétorix.
- Bombyx and hélix are a little special for poetry (the latter meant only the exterior contour of the ear), and strix was not to be found in dictionaries current during Mallarmé's lifetime.