monoceros
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③ Monodon monoceros: The narwhal is a medium-sized toothed whale that lives year-round in the Arctic.
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- A unicorn, or some other one-horned animal, real or imaginary. Mighty Monoceroses with immeasured tayles. Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 23.
- [capitalized] A constellation, the Unicorn, south of the Twins and the Crab, and between the two Dogs, introduced by Jacob Bartsch in 1624.
- The narwhal, Monodon monoceros.
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③ Monodon monoceros: The narwhal is a medium-sized toothed whale that lives year-round in the Arctic.
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(dagger) Monodon monoceros, Narwhal.
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Monodon: monoceros, nar\vhal, spurius.
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- from Latin monoceros, from Greek
μονόκερως , a unicorn, fromμονόκερως , alsoμονοκέρατος , one-horned, fromμόνος , single, +κέρας , horn.