"gryph" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1997 February 4, Rayn, “gryphons or dragons?”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "ps. I'd rather gryphs than drags. healing is the best when you consider these guys cost a bit much.",
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          "ref": "1998 November 1, Polenth, chapter IDIC, in alt.mythology.mythic-animals.gryphons (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "I prefer the modern diversity, though that includes lion/eagle gryphs, just not them in isolation. I like diversity. As a vaguely related note, perhaps all gryphs were lion/eagle ones once, but they evolved to look different depending on where they lived.",
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          "ref": "1998 June 26, Gryphon65, “um, hi. i'm back & i think i'm in one piece.”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "So these gryphs no doubt learned to become quite enraged whenever they saw or heard signs of horses. […] As for hippogryphs, again, I don't see why sentient beings couldn't get along. The idea of a hippogryph in the first place was the existance^([sic]) of an impossibility. They are still chimeric, very-similar-to-gryphs creatures.",
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        "(informal) Clipping of gryphon."
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          "text": "I prefer the modern diversity, though that includes lion/eagle gryphs, just not them in isolation. I like diversity. As a vaguely related note, perhaps all gryphs were lion/eagle ones once, but they evolved to look different depending on where they lived.",
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          "ref": "1998 June 26, Gryphon65, “um, hi. i'm back & i think i'm in one piece.”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "So these gryphs no doubt learned to become quite enraged whenever they saw or heard signs of horses. […] As for hippogryphs, again, I don't see why sentient beings couldn't get along. The idea of a hippogryph in the first place was the existance^([sic]) of an impossibility. They are still chimeric, very-similar-to-gryphs creatures.",
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        "(informal) Clipping of gryphon."
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