Centaur

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Greek Mythology One of a race of monsters having the head, arms, and trunk of a man and the body and legs of a horse.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A mythical beast having a horse's body with a human head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
  • n. An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalized).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
  • n. A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Greek myth, a monster, half man and half horse, descended from Ixion and Nephele, the cloud.
  • n. The constellation Centaurus.
  • n. In heraldry See sagittary.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
  • n. (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
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    satyr    centauric    centaurette    minotaur    faun    centaurian    centaurial    centauress    onocentaur    centauroid   
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