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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -phaethon-, *phaethon*
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Thai-English-French: Volubilis Dictionary 1.0
นกร่อนทะเล[nok rǿn thalē] (n, exp) EN: Phaethontidae

WordNet (3.0)
phaethon(n) (Greek mythology) son of Helios; killed when trying to drive his father's chariot and came too close to earth
phaethon(n) type genus of the Phaethontidae, Syn. genus Phaethon
phaethontidae(n) tropicbirds, Syn. family Phaethontidae

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Phaethon

prop. n. [ L., Phaëthon (in sense 1), fr. Gr. Fae`qwn, fr. fae`qein, fa`ein, to shine. See Phantom. ] 1. (Class. Myth.) The son of Helios (Phœbus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

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