tauricornous

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adjective

Having horns like those of a bull.

OriginLatin corn(u) →
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Meanings

adjectivetauricornous (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareHaving horns like those of a bull.

    It is a pity Tubbs was not an Egyptologist enamoured of the kings or even an enlightened collector, for he had an uncanny gift and could not walk two feet without kicking up an outsize alabaster thumb, a tauricornous amulet, a gold needle, an unnameable something-or-other black with tar […].

    1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 96
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    And if (as Macrobius and very good authors concede) Bacchus, (who is also described with horns,) be the same deity with the sun; and if (as Vossius well contendeth) Moses and Bacchus were the same person; their descriptions must be relative, or the tauricornous picture of the one, perhaps the same with the other.

    1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.9

Origin

  1. Latincorn(u)“horn”
  2. Englishtauricornous

From taur(us) (“bull”) + -i- + Latin corn(u) (“horn”) + -ous.

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