Translation for "sphinges" to spanish

Sphinges

noun

• esfinge

Translation examples

esfinge noun

Great big fat ones with steel and sapphire on their wings; and big moths, in the night, with skull and cross-bones on their backs.’ Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously:— ‘The Acherontia atropos of the Sphinges—what you call the “Death’s-head moth!”’ The patient went on without stopping.
moscas enormes, de alas resplandecientes y azules, o por la noche, grandes polillas con calaveras y tibias cruzadas sobre sus espaldas. Van Helsing le animó a seguir con un ademán, en tanto murmuraba a mi oído: —La Acherontia atropos de la esfinge.