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Definition of: Pegasus
(peg′ə·səs)
1. In Greek mythology, a winged horse, sprung from the blood of Medusa, a blow of whose hoof caused the fountain of poetic inspiration, Hippocrene, to spring from Mount Helicon; hence, poetic inspiration. See BELLEROPHON.
2. Astron. A northern constellation. See CONSTELLATION. [<L <Gk. Pēgasos, after pēgai the springs of Ocean, where Medusa was killed]
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