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Noun: Achilles  u'ki-leez
  1. A mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his 'Achilles' heel'

Type of: mythical being

Encyclopedia: Achilles, KS

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