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Monoceros

//məˈnɒsəɹəs// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a unicorn. It lies amid the Milky Way, just east of the constellation Orion.
Noun
  1. 1
    A unicorn. obsolete

    "The ancients were most liberal with their descriptions of fabulous animals, and the Monoceros or Unicorn was a favourite subject with them; but I am not aware whether or no the account which Spencer gives has so early an origin."

  2. 2
    A narwhal. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French monoceros, from Latin monocerōs.

Etymology 2

First recorded by the astronomer Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but possibly created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From Latin monocerōs (“unicorn”).

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