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Definition of Bellerophon

Bellerophon
Bellerophon Bel*ler"o*phon, n. (Paleon.) A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

Meaning of Bellerophon from wikipedia

- Bellerophon or Bellerophontes (Ancient Gr****: Βελλεροφόν; Βελλεροφόντης; lit. "slayer of Belleros") or Hipponous (Ancient Gr****: Ἱππονοος; lit. "horse-knower")...
- captured by the Gr**** hero Bellerophon, near the fountain Peirene, with the help of Athena and Poseidon. Pegasus allowed Bellerophon to ride him in order to...
- HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
- the Iliad, the hero Bellerophon was ordered by the king of Lycia to slay the Chimera (hoping the monster would kill Bellerophon). Still, the hero, "trusting...
- Bellérophon is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle first performed by the...
- Bellerophon is a hero in Gr**** mythology. Bellerophon may also refer to: Bellerophon (play), an ancient Gr**** play by Euripides Bellérophon, an opera...
- The Bellerophon-class battleship was a group of three dreadnought battleships that were built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century...
- Bellerophon is a genus of extinct paleozoic marine molluscs of uncertain position (Gastropoda or Monoplacophora) in the family Bellerophontidae. The genus...
- have been named HMS Bellerophon after the hero Bellerophon in Gr**** mythology, whilst another two were planned: HMS Bellerophon (1786), nicknamed the...
- HMS Bellerophon was a central battery ironclad built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1860s. In this ship, designed by Sir Edward Reed, the power-to-weight...