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.

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