sphinges


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sphin·ges

 (sfĭn′jēz′)
n.
A plural of sphinx.
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Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously, "The Acherontia Atropos of the Sphinges, what you call the `Death's-head Moth'?"
A synonymic catalogue of Lepidoptera-Heterocera, volume 1, Sphinges and Bombyces.
(4) "The Conjectures of other Learned Men about them I have examined: And by what I have faid in the following Philosophical Effay, I think I have fully proved that there were fuch Animals as the ancients called Pygmies, Cynophali, Satyrs, and Sphinges; and that they were only Apes and Monkeys" (Tyson, "Preface").