Bagehot's definitions

Cynthrapod

An animal shaped like a wild boar with the feet an elephant. Legend has it that they and build dams out of rocks and eat skis.

Origin:

Birth on Mt. Cynthus, on Delos (also the birth place of Artemis)
Gk - pod, s. of -pous, adj. deriv. of pous (foot)

That dam looks like it was built by a cynthrapod

by Bagehot April 30, 2011