sphinx : Idioms & Phrases

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cynopterus sphinx

  • noun a variety of fruit eating bat
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mandrillus sphinx

  • noun baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters
    mandrill.
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Sphinx baboon

  • (Zoöl.), a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), often kept in menageries.
Webster 1913

Sphinx moth

  • noun any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
    hawk moth; hawkmoth; sphingid; hummingbird moth.
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  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Sphinx, 3.
Webster 1913

Tomato sphinx

  • (Zoöl.), the adult or imago of the tomato worm. It closely resembles the tobacco hawk moth. Called also tomato hawk moth. See Illust. of Hawk moth.
Webster 1913

Vine sphinx

  • (Zoöl.), any one of several species of hawk moths. The larvæ feed on grapevine leaves.
Webster 1913