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Word: hieroglyphin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...White plays among the footnotes and try to puzzle out what animal, vegetable or mineral the Middle Ages mistook for unicorn, dragon, griffin, basilisk, etc. White guesses that the poison-breathing basilisk was very likely the cobra, but thinks the griffin was strictly mythological, in fact "something of a Hieroglyphin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As They Ought to Be | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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