manticore
- n a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion
- A manticore has a man's face, blood-red eyes, three rows of teeth, a tail with a scorpion's sting, and a voice as shrill as the high notes of a flute.
- Since the environments cannot contain actors, they are populated by tongue-in-cheek cubist animals and figures, some of whichlike the cutout griffin, giraffe, manticore and .