Hippogriff

Hippogriff, or HIPPOGRYPH (Gr. hippos, 'a horse,' and the word gryph, 'griffin'), a fabulous animal, unknown to the ancients, which is represented by modern writers as a winged horse with the head of a griffin. The hippogriff figures as the horse of the Muses, and plays a conspicuous rôle in the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto.