unicorn
(noun) an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
Source: WordNet® 3.1
unicorn (plural unicorns)
A mythical beast resembling a horse or deer with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
Hyponyms: pegacorn, unipeg, unisus
Meronym: alicorn
Holonym: blessing
(historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.
Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.
A caterpillar, Schizura unicornis, with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.
The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
(military) A howitzer.
Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
(sexual slang) A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging and/or polyamory.
(business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g, domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).
(finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.
Coordinate term: decacorn
(attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.
(historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.
unicorn (third-person singular simple present unicorns, present participle unicorning, simple past and past participle unicorned)
(sexual slang) To participate in a sexual threesome as a bisexual addition to an established heterosexual couple.
(finance) To exceed a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars, while solely backed by venture capitalists.
Source: Wiktionary
U"ni*corn, n. Etym: [OE. unicorne, F. unicorne, L. unicornis one- horned, having a single horn; unus one + cornu a horn; cf. L. unicornuus a unicorn. See One, and Horn.]
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.)
Definition: The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird.
5. (Mil.)
Definition: 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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
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