Geryon

Definition: Geryon

Geryon

Noun

1. (Greek mythology) a mythical monster with three heads that was slain by Hercules.

Date "Geryon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Geryon (g hard). A human monster with three bodies and three heads, whose oxen ate human flesh, and were guarded by a two-headed dog. Hercules slew both Geryon and the dog. This fable means simply that Geryon reigned over three kingdoms, and was defended by an ally, who was at the head of two tribes. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Geryon

Specialty definitions using "Geryon": Gargittios. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Golden crab attempts to free a buddy from a crab trap. Geryon.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).
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"Geryon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Geryon" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Geryon spp.. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: eryngo, groyne.
	Words within the letters "e-g-n-o-r-y"
	-1 letter: genro, goner, gyron, onery.
	-2 letters: ergo, goer, gone, gore, gory, grey, gyre, gyro, ogre, orgy, oyer, yore.
	-3 letters: ego, eng, eon, erg, ern, gen, gey, gor, goy, nog, nor, one, ore, reg, roe, rye, yen, yon.
	-4 letters: en, er, go, ne, no, oe, on, or, oy, re, ye, yo.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-n-o-r-y"
	+1 letter: cryogen, eryngos, groynes, orangey, orogeny, progeny, pyrogen, younger.
	+2 letters: cryogens, cryogeny, eryngoes, hydrogen, orangery, pyrogens, seignory, yearlong, youngers.
	+3 letters: androgyne, cryogenic, greyhound, gynophore, gyroplane, hydrogens, legionary, necrology, neurology, nonenergy, nongreasy, overlying, oystering, pyrogenic, rebodying, recopying, seigniory, strongyle, youngster.
	+4 letters: androgynes, beworrying, congruency, cryogenics, cryogenies, dendrology, destroying, embryogeny, epeirogeny, generosity, generously, goniometry, governessy, granophyre, greyhounds, gymnosperm, gynophores, gyroplanes, heterogeny, heterogony, journeying, loganberry, mineralogy, neighborly, nephrology, numerology, overbuying, overdrying, overdyeing, overflying, overhyping, overjoying, overlaying, overpaying, overplying, oxygenator, oysterings, perigynous, phrenology, reenjoying, regionally, renography, roystering, strongyles, torrefying, tourneying, toweringly, trichogyne, trolleying, tutoyering, venography, youngberry, youngsters.
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