[a. Gr. ἀνδρόσφιγξ, f. ἀνδρο- male + SPHINX.] A man-sphinx; a sphinx whose human portion is male.
1607. Topsell, Four-footed Beasts (1673), 15. In the porch of Pallas … he placed such great colosses and Andro-sphinges that it was afterwards supposed he was buried therein.
1850. Leitch, Müller’s Anc. Art, § 228. Sphinxes or androsphinxes are lions with human heads.
