Symplegades

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A pair of rocks at the Bosphorus that clashed together whenever a vessel passed through.

Word forms

Symplegades the Symplegades

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Symplēgades, from Ancient Greek Συμπληγάδες (Sumplēgádes).

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