Scylla (sea monster)/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Scylla (sea monster).

From Greek mythology, a female sea monster, six-headed with legs made of snakes, who devoured sailors along one side of a narrow sea passage. Alternatively, a dangerous rock in the same location on which mariners tended to wreck their ships.