Usually means: Mythological king punished by Zeus.
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  1. Ixion: Merriam-Webster
  2. Ixion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Ixion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Ixion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ixion, ixion: Wordnik
  6. Ixion: Wiktionary
  7. Ixion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Ixion: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ixion: Dictionary.com
  10. Ixion (Ribera), Ixion (coral), Ixion (disambiguation), Ixion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Ixion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Ixion: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. Ixion: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Ixion: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Ixion)

noun:  (Greek mythology) King of Lapiths, who was punished by Zeus for trying to seduce Hera by being bound to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning.
noun:  (astronomy) A Kuiper belt object (KBO), 28978 Ixion (provisional designation 2001 KX₇₆), once thought to be a possible dwarf planet.

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