| 单词 | unicorn |
| 释义 | unicorn /yooh"ni kawrn'/, n. 1. a mythical creature resembling a horse, with a single horn in the center of its forehead: often symbolic of chastity or purity. 2. a heraldic representation of this animal, in the form of a horse with a lion's tail and with a long, straight, and spirally twisted horn. 3. (cap.) Astron. the constellation Monoceros. 4. an animal mentioned in the Bible, Deut. 33:17: now believed by some to be a description of a wild ox or rhinoceros. 5. a former gold coin of Scotland, first issued by James III in 1486, having an obverse bearing the figure of a unicorn. [1175-1225; ME unicorne ( < OF) < L unicornis one-horned, equiv. to uni- UNI- + corn(u) HORN + -is adj. suffix] |
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