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单词 Hippocamp
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Hippocamp

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Hippocampus (mythology)

Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937)
Hippocampus in Roman mosaic in the thermae at Aquae Sulis (Bath)
Tritons and winged hippocampi in the Trevi Fountain, Rome
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The hippocampus or hippocamp, also hippokampoi (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Greek:ἱιππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, "horse" and κάμπος, "monster"), often called a sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology, though the name by which it is recognised is purely Greek. It was also adopted into Etruscan mythology. It has typically been depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.

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