Sphinx
English Meaning
In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
- Mythology A figure in Egyptian myth having the body of a lion and the head of a man, ram, or hawk.
- Greek Mythology A winged creature having the head of a woman and the body of a lion, noted for killing those who could not answer its riddle.
- A puzzling or mysterious person.