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licorn

licorn is the alternative form of licorne.

Meaning of licorne

Noun

licorne (plural licornes)

  1. (historical) A type of muzzle-loading gun-howitzer used by the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.
    • But I think our new 24-pounder howitzer will be found superior to any of them, not even excepting the Russian Licorne.1824, “Answers of Sir A. D., K. C. B. of the Royal Artillery, to some questions from Lieutenant C. D. Bengal Artillery”, in The British Indian Military Repository, volume 3

Forms of licorn

plurallicorns

Questions about licorn

What is licorn the alternative form of?
Licorn is the alternative form of licorne.

Words near licorn in the dictionary

  1. licorice wheel
  2. licorice wheels
  3. licorices
  4. licoricey
  5. licorine
  6. licorn
  7. licorne
  8. licornes
  9. licorns
  10. licorous
  11. licostinel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: licorn (page history and authors); licorne (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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