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LEGENDARY CREATURE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A monster that is unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("legendary creature" is a kind of...):

mythical creature; mythical monster (a monster renowned in folklore and myth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legendary creature"):

abominable snowman; yeti (a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas)

doppelganger (a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart)

sea serpent (huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon)

Instance hyponyms:

Bigfoot; Sasquatch (large hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada)

Loch Ness monster; Nessie (a large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland)

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