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- Sphinx - n. - 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.
- Sphinx - n. - On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
- Sphinx - n. - Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
- Sphinx - n. - Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
- Sphinx - n. - The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).
- Criosphinx - n. - A sphinx with the head of a ram.
- Androsphinx - n. - A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion.