hippogriff

[ hip-uh-grif ]

/ ˈhɪp əˌgrɪf /

a fabulous creature resembling a griffin but having the body and hind parts of a horse.

Origin of hippogriff

1645–55; earlier hippogryph, Latinized < Italian ippogrifo. See hippo-, griffin¹

There he would bring the Moors, and there should his hero Astolfo, riding on a Hippogriff, &c. &c.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 |Various
And it will hurt you much less if the Hippogriff and I happen to be flying in the same direction.

The Magic City |Edith Nesbit
And also they heard the answer of the person on the Hippogriff—the person who had snatched Philip on to its back.

The Magic City |Edith Nesbit
Pegasus was the parent of the Hippogriff, and Polyphemus of Orco.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds

The hippogriff was therefore one quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold.

The Cynic's Word Book |Ambrose Bierce

hippogriff

/ (ˈhɪpəʊˌɡrɪf) /

a monster of Greek mythology with a griffin's head, wings, and claws and a horse's body

C17: from Italian ippogrifo, from ippo- horse (from Greek hippos) + grifo griffin 1