makara

noun

ma·​ka·​ra

ˈməkərə

plural -s

: a water monster of Hindu religious myth that is represented in religious art as having the body of a crocodile and head of an antelope and as being the steed of Varuna and the emblem of Kamadeva

Word History

Etymology

Sanskrit

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