The name of a fabulous creature: see quot. 1300.

A fabulous beast with horns and tusks, perhaps the two-horned rhinoceros; used in Heraldry (see quot. 1910).

Applied (in Latin form) to fabulous creatures, beasts or birds: see quots. Obsolete.

A carnivorous quadruped described as having a long hairy tail, and said to carry its young upon its back.

(See quots.)

(a) = rhinocerot bird n. at compounds; (b) a mythical reptilian creature. Obsolete. rare.

(A name for) a fabulous monster inhabiting the rushy swamps and lagoons in the interior of Australia. Also attributive.

A fleet, furious, fuming, fabulous creature, of dangerous propensities, immune to bribery and too fast to flee from; later, used vaguely to…

In Manichaean cosmology: the giant who carries the earth on his shoulders.

The name of a mythical monster, or a mask-design showing its face, found esp. on metalware of the Chou period (1122–221 b.c.). Frequently attributive.

An imaginary creature resembling a llama or antelope, but with a head at either end of the body, pointing away from the torso, so that the…

A fabulous animal invented by the U.S. cartoonist Al Capp in 1948. It is small and round, and ready to fulfil immediately any of man's material…

Any of various giant monsters featured in Japanese films and television programmes (or those in a similar style made elsewhere). Cf. kaiju eiga, n.…