noun
- a fabulous creature resembling a griffin but having the body and hind parts of a horse.
noun
- a monster of Greek mythology with a griffin’s head, wings, and claws and a horse’s body
also hippogryph, 1650s, from French hippogriffe (16c.), from Italian ippogrifo, from Greek hippos “horse” (see equine) + Italian grifo, from Late Latin gryphus “griffin” (see griffin). A creature part griffin, but with body and hind parts in the form of a horse.