Achillean

[æki'li:әn]

Definition

(a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

Checker: Rhonda

Definition

adj. like Achilles the great Greek hero in the Trojan war brave swift of foot unrelenting in wrath.—Achilles tendon the attachment of the soleus and gastrocnemius muscles of the calf of the leg to the heel-bone so named from the infant Achilles's mother Thetis having held him by the heel when she dipped him into the Styx to make him invulnerable.

Typist: Perry