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tauricornous

tauricornous adjective: having horns like those of a bull.

Adjective

tauricornous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having horns like those of a bull.
    • 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...1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.9
    • 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

Origin of tauricornous

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

Questions about tauricornous

What does tauricornous mean?
Tauricornous means having horns like those of a bull.
What part of speech is tauricornous?
Tauricornous is an adjective.

Words near tauricornous in the dictionary

  1. Taurica
  2. tauricide
  3. tauricides
  4. Taurick
  5. Tauricks
  6. tauricornous
  7. Taurid
  8. Taurida
  9. Tauridian
  10. Tauridians
  11. tauridor

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