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noun (Greek mythology) a monster with a hundred heads who breathed out flames; son of Typhoeus and father of Cerberus and the Chimera and the Sphinx
originPerhaps from Ancient Greek Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”); see typhoon.
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