(greek mythology) A monster represented as a serpent with the head and breasts of a woman that ate children and sucked the blood from men.
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A female vampire.
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(class. myth.) Any of a class of monsters, half woman and half serpent, supposed to lure people, esp. children, in order to suck their blood.
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(folklore) A female demon or vampire.
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A monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latinlamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lamia).
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Lamia Sentence Examples
He compares her story with that of Lamia, who, after her children had been slain by Zeus, retired to a lonely cave and carried off and killed the children of others.
The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (1827) and a dramatic romance, Lamia, published later, belong to this time.
The geographical name is sometimes extended over all these branches, and so reaches from Aetolia to the Gulf of Lamia.
Thence it crosses that lake in a straight line and afterwards the Ruwenzori to its highest point, Margherita peak, whence it follows the Lamia River to its junction with the Semliki.