Helicon noun. ['hɛlɪk(ǝ)n] L15.
[Latin from Greek Helikōn a mountain in Boeotia, Greece, formerly sacred to the Muses, often confused by 16th- and 17th-cent. writers with the springs of Aganippe and Hippocrene which rose in it. In sense 2 assoc. with HELIX.]
1. A source, region, etc. of poetic inspiration. L15.
Bookman Any question of his precise place in England's Helicon.
2. (helicon.) A large kind of bass tuba made in spiral form. L19.

■ Heliconian [-'kǝʊnɪǝn] adjective of Helicon or the Muses M16.

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