Definition of Unicorn

1. Noun. An imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead.


Definition of Unicorn

1. n. A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.

2. n. A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.

Definition of Unicorn

1. a mythical horselike creature [n -S]

Medical Definition of Unicorn

1. 1. A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; often represented in heraldry as a supporter. 2. A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorised Version of the Scriptures. "Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?" (Job xxxix. 10) The unicorn mentioned in the Scripture was probably the urus. See the Note under Reem. 3. Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax. The larva of a unicorn moth. 4. The kamichi. Synonym: unicorn bird. 5. A howitzer. Fossil unicorn, or Fossil unicorn's horn, a notodontian moth (Coelodasys unicornis) whose caterpillar has a prominent horn on its back; called also unicorn prominent. Unicorn root, any one of several species of marine gastropods having a prominent spine on the lip of the shell. most of them belong to the genera Monoceros and Leucozonia. Origin: OE. Unicorne, F. Unicorne, L. Unicornis one-horned, having a single horn; unus one + cornu a horn; cf. L. Unicornuus a unicorn. See One, and Horn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Unicorn

unicapsular
UNICEF
unicelled
unicellular
unicellular
unicellular gland
unicellular sclerosis
unicentral
unicities
unicity
unicity
uniclinal
unicolor
unicolourous
unicorn (current term)
unicorn (current term)
unicornous
unicorns
unicornuate
unicorn root
unicorn uterus
unicostate
unicursal
unicuspid
unicuspid
unicycle
unicycled
unicycles
unicycling
unicyclist

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