What is a word to describe a mythical creature that is part-man, part animal?

Question

I mean a generic word for such a creature.
Examples would be: centaur, harpy, sphinx etc.
I know there's a word - I found it in my thesaurus a while back, but can't remember how I got there, and can't find it again :-(

Answer 1

Grabbed James Parker's _Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry_ to check a few references, since there's plenty of unusual critters showing up on armorial devices. Ran into specifics of satyr, centaur, sphynx, harpy, mermaid, siren, triton (mer-man), lampago (man-tiger), and chimera----but could not find a general term for "monstrous creature" here. (However, if you want specifics on what these things look like, heraldry's the place to look.)

If I remember my biology correctly, "chimera" is used to describe animals bred (created?) with genes from several parents-- recall reading about such mice in one of the science journals not too long ago----and it'd probably do as a basic catchterm if you can't find something better.

Good luck in the hunt!

PS: If you have any reasonable familiarity with classic languages, or know someone who does, why not see about *creating* a suitable term?---poly-somethingorother, or whatever sounds good and is descriptive of whatever it is....?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Mythological

Answer 4

chimeras.. is a mythical word for a combo of two animals, and then there is a centaur which is a combination of a man and horse, a minotaur of a man and bull.

Answer 5

chimaera

chi‧me‧ra  /kɪˈmɪərə, kaɪ-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ki-meer-uh, kahy-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -ras.
1.(often initial capital letter) a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
2.any similarly grotesque monster having disparate parts, esp. as depicted in decorative art.

Answer 6

A chimera is a mythological creature that's made of parts of different animals; but I don't know if that includes human-animal hybrids....

Answer 7

Werewolf

Answer 8

chimera -

coming from mythology it consisted of the body of a goat, the head of a lion and a snakes tail.

you can also get biological tetragametic chimeras who have more than one strain of distinct dna in their bodies. this occurs when one twin gets absorbed into another in the womb.

Answer 9

Nephilim

Aho,
Fenix

Answer 10

Minotaur, part bull and part human

Centaur, part horse and part human

don't remember , part goat part human... See it in Hercules

Check Crash of the Titans, have the whole Greek mythologies.