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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.
