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Manticore
The manticore is a legendary creature, a kind of chimera with the head of a man—often with horns, gray eyes, three rows of iron shark-like teeth, and a loud, trumpet/pipe-like roar—the body of a (sometimes red-furred) lion, and the tail of a dragon or scorpion, which may shoot out venomous spines or hairs to incapacitate prey (thus confusing its imagery with the cryptozoology of a porcupine, though tarantulas do something similar with their hairs). Occasionally, a manticore will possess wings of some description.
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