01 n. A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.
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1.
A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.
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2.
A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures.“Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?” — Job xxxix. 10.
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3.
Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.(Zool.)
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4.
The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird.(Zool.) Also: unicorn bird
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5.
A howitzer.(Mil.) [Obs.]
Phrases & compounds
Fossil unicorn —
a substance formerly of great repute in medicine; -- named from having been supposed to be the bone or the horn of the unicorn.
Unicorn fish —
the narwhal.
Unicorn moth —
a notodontian moth (Coelodasys unicornis) whose caterpillar has a prominent horn on its back; -- called also unicorn prominent.
Unicorn root —
a name of two North American plants, the yellow-flowered colicroot (Aletris farinosa) and the blazing star (Chamaelirium luteum). Both are used in medicine.
Unicorn shell —
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.