Usually means: Mythical sea monster with heads.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scylla, Scylla: Merriam-Webster
  2. Scylla: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Scylla: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Scylla: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Scylla: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scylla: Wordnik
  7. Scylla: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Scylla: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. scylla: Dictionary.com
  10. Scylla (Prison Break episode), Scylla (crustacean), Scylla (database), Scylla (disambiguation), Scylla (genus), Scylla (princess), Scylla: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Scylla: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. scylla: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Scylla: Rhymezone
  14. Scylla: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. Scylla: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. scylla: FreeDictionary.org
  17. scylla: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Scylla: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Scylla: Wiktionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scylla: Global Glossary
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scylla: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scylla: A Word A Day
  2. Scylla: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scylla: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scylla: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scyllas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Scylla)

noun:  A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A personification of said rock as a ravenous monster.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A princess, daughter of King Nisos of Megara, who fell in love with King Minos and betrayed her city to him.
noun:  (astronomy) The main belt asteroid 155 Scylla.

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