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From deca- (“ten”) + -corn (“horns”), by analogy with unicorn (literally “one horn”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From deca- (“ten”) + -corn (“horns”), by analogy with unicorn (literally “one horn”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.