argus

English Thesaurus

1. large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	pheasant,
definition	:	large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	argusianus, genus argusianus,
definition	:	argus pheasants (noun.animal)

2. (Greek mythology) a giant with 100 eyes; was guardian of the heifer Io and was slain by Hermes (noun.person)

hypernym	:	giant,
definition	:	an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales (noun.person)

domain category	:	greek mythology,
definition	:	the mythology of the ancient Greeks (noun.group)