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Phaethon
Phaethon Pha"["e]*thon, n. [L., Pha["e]thon (in sense 1), fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, to shine. See Phantom.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The son of Helios (Ph[oe]bus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.
Phaethon flavirostris
Tropic Trop"ic, a. Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical. Tropic bird (Zo["o]l.), any one of three species of oceanic belonging to the genus Pha["e]thon, found chiefly in tropical seas. They are mostly white, and have two central tail feathers very long and slender. The yellow-billed tropic bird. Pha["e]thon flavirostris (called also boatswain), is found on the Atlantic coast of America, and is common at the Bermudas, where it breeds.
Phaethon flavirostris
Egg-bird Egg"-bird`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Pha["e]thon flavirostris.

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- who tormented Prometheus, Aethon, was the child of the monsters Typhon and Echidna. In English, aithôn may be written Aethon, Aithon or Ethon. In Gr****...
- Sueviota aethon, the grumpy dwarfgoby, is a species of goby endemic to the Red Sea, and can grow to 17 millimetres (0.67 in) in length. It is closely related...
- of Thessaly. Antoninus Liberalis called her Hypermestra and Erysichthon Aethon. Mestra was the mother of King Eurypylus of Cos by Poseidon. According to...
- Chrysoritis aethon, the Lydenburg opal, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Africa, where it is known from northern KwaZulu-Natal...
- Xanthos Horses of Hector Aethon Lampus Podargus Xanthus Horses of Helios, immortal horses of the sun-god Helios. Abraxas Aethon Bronte Euos Phlegon Pyrois...
- Erisichthon, was a king of Thessaly[citation needed]. He was sometimes called Aethon. Erysichthon was the son of King Triopas possibly by Hiscilla, daughter...
- Underworld to bring ****phone down with him. The other three were Orphnaeus, Aethon, and Nycteus. Alastor, in Christian demonology, came to be considered a...
- novelist Antonius Diogenes in the second century, and tells the story of Aethon, a shepherd on a quest to find the fabled paradise in the sky. In his travels...
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