bəˈlerəˌfän, -_fən noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Bellerophon, mythological character who slew the Chimera with the help of Pegasus, from Latin, from Greek Bellerophōn
: a genus (the type of the family Bellerophontidae) of extinct Palaeozoic gastropod mollusks having a somewhat loosely coiled plain spiral shell and often placed in the superfamily Bellerophontacea of the Aspidobranchia
• bel·ler·o·phont -ˌfänt adjective or noun