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LAMIA (lamiae)
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Irregular inflected form: lamiae
Dictionary entry overview: What does lamia mean?
• LAMIA (noun)
The noun LAMIA has 1 sense:
1. (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
Familiarity information: LAMIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
lamia; vampire
Hypernyms ("lamia" is a kind of...):
evil spirit (a spirit tending to cause harm)
Domain category:
folklore (the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture)
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