Bellerophon Definition

bə-lĕrə-fən, -fŏn
noun
The Corinthian hero who, with the aid of the winged horse Pegasus, slew the Chimera.
American Heritage
The hero who kills the monster Chimera, aided by the winged horse Pegasus.
Webster's New World

(paleontology) Any of the genus Bellerophon of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, and peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

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Noun

Singular:
Bellerophon
Plural:
bellerophons

Bellerophon Sentence Examples

  • It was on this understanding (which Las Cases afterwards misrepresented) that Napoleon on the 15th of July mounted the deck of the "Bellerophon."

  • But Anteia (or Stheneboea), wife of Proetus, became enamoured of Bellerophon, and, when he refused her advances, charged him with an attempt upon her virtue.

  • Bellerophon,mounted on Pegasus(q.v.),kept up in the air out of the way of the Chimaera, but yet near enough to kill it with his spear, or, as he is at other times represented,with his sword or with a bow.

  • Bellerophon was honoured as a hero at Corinth and in Lycia.

  • It has been suggested that Perseus, the local hero of Argos, and Bellerophon were originally one and the same, the difference in their exploits being the result of the rivalry of Argos and Corinth.

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