Other forms: manticores
A manticore is a legendary beast with a lion's body and a man's face. Face the manticore, the manticore's tail, a manticore in the bestiary.
It has a tail of spines it shoots like arrows and eats its prey whole, leaving nothing, which is what the Persian name means: man-eater. It came into European bestiaries through Greek accounts of India and has stayed in fantasy ever since.
1nounmanticoreA legendary beast with a lion's body and a man's face.
“The knights rode into the mountains to hunt the manticore that had been eating travellers.”
manticore is a legendary beast.
Greek martichoras comes from an Old Persian word meaning man-eater.
peo
*martyahvārah — man-eater
Ancient Greek
μαρτιχόρας — man-eater; tiger
Latin
mantichōras
English, today
manticore
Built from
From Latin mantichōras, from Ancient Greek μαρτιχόρας (“man-eater; tiger”), from peo martyahvārah (“man-eater”), from 𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 (“man”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA