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hippotaurs

hippotaurs is the plural of hippotaur.

Meaning of hippotaur

Noun (1)

hippotaur (plural hippotaurs)

  1. A creature that is half bull and half horse.
    • Cnemon is surprised even by the shadow of a crocodile, while Nausicles smiles at a foolish bird-catcher sent to catch the phoenicopter; or the giraffe terrifies the Ethiopians at a point in the plot when surprise is least expected - before Theagenes improvises a hippotaur to deal with it. This is...1982 May 1, Graham Anderson, Eros Sophistes: Ancient Novelists at Play, number 9, Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 37
    Synonyms:
    jumart

Noun (2)

hippotaur (plural hippotaurs)

  1. (slang) A taur with the lower body of a hippopotamus.

Questions about hippotaurs

What is hippotaurs the plural of?
Hippotaurs is the plural of hippotaur.

Words near hippotaurs in the dictionary

  1. hipposiderid
  2. hipposiderids
  3. hipposudoric acid
  4. hippotamus
  5. hippotaur
  6. hippotaurs
  7. hippotayne
  8. hippotaynes
  9. hippotherapy
  10. hippotigrine
  11. hippotomist

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