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LAMIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: lamiae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

Synonyms:

lamia; vampire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lamia" is a kind of...):

evil spirit (a spirit tending to cause harm)

Domain category:

folklore (the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture)

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