unicorn

1. n. A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter. Source: opted

2. n. A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures. Source: opted

3. n. Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax. Source: opted

4. n. The larva of a unicorn moth. Source: opted

5. n. The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird. Source: opted

6. n. A howitzer. Source: opted

7. n. an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead Source: wordnet

8. 1. A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter. 2. A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures. Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow Job xxxix. 10. Note: The unicorn mentioned in the Scripture was probably the urus. See the Note under Reem. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax. (b) The larva of a unicorn moth. 4. (Zoöl.) The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird. 5. (Mil.) A howitzer. [Obs.] Fossil unicorn, or Fossil unicorn's horn (Med.), a substance formerly of great repute in medicine; -- named from having been supposed to be the bone or the horn of the unicorn. -- Unicorn fish, Unicorn whale (Zoöl.), the narwhal. -- Unicorn moth (Zoöl.), a notodontian moth (Coelodasys unicornis) whose caterpillar has a prominent horn on its back; -- called also unicorn prominent. -- Unicorn root (Bot.), a name of two North American plants, the yellow-flowered colicroot (Aletris farinosa) and the blazing star (Chamælirium luteum). Both are used in medicine. -- Unicorn shell (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine gastropods having a prominent spine on the lip of the shell. Most of them belong to the genera Monoceros and Leucozonia. Source: webster

9. n:100 n. an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead Source: ecdict

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