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Etymologies
- Middle English, unicorn, from Old French, from Latin monocerōs, from Greek monokerōs, having one horn : mono-, mono- + keras, horn; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“In the eastern Arctic less progress has been made toward co-management for narwhal (Monodon monoceros) partly because of a failure to involve fully the Inuit hunters [17].”
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Canadian North
“It shares with the southern parks abundant marine life: Kamchatka crab Paralithodes camtschatica, sea otter (900 animals), sea lion Eumetopias jubatus (EN, 800 breeding animals), Kuril seal Phoca vitulina stejnegeri (500), spotted P. largha and ringed seals P. hispida ochotensis, Risso's dolphin grampus griseus, narwhal Monodon monoceros and walrus Odobenus rosmarus divergens.”
“Beluga Delphinapterus leucas (VU) and narwal Monodon monoceros visit Disko Bugt in autumn and winter.”
“On Joshua's money, on one side, an ox; on the other, a monoceros.”
“In the Septuagint, the Hebrew word _reêm_ was translated _monoceros_ in the Greek text.”
“Ocean, the two most interesting of which are the gigantic sperm whales (_Physeter macrocephalus_), and the curious narwhal or sea unicorn (_Monodon monoceros_).”
“There is a species of Termes in Ceylon (_T. monoceros_), which always builds its nest in the hollow of an old tree; and, unlike the others, carries on its labours without the secrecy and protection of a covered way.”
“The only real _Monoceros_, or one horned animal, known to naturalists, is the rhinoceros monoceros, or one-horned rhinoceros, which bears its horn on the nose, a little way above the muzzle, not on the forehead.”
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
“③ Monodon monoceros: The narwhal is a medium-sized toothed whale that lives year-round in the Arctic.”
“The narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is a toothed whale closely related to the all-white beluga.”
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Asterisms
Although Orion's Belt and The Big Dipper (or The Plough) are not official constellations, they are still quite familiar to stargazers. Such groupings of stars are called asterisms.
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Selected Terms from Falconer's New Universal Di...
1815 edition; ed. William Burney (London: Chatham Publishing, 2006).
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Having: C; m; e
Goodies pulled from a list I've compiled of most-every word having these letters in common — It's going take to take a long, long time to actually get through (and I may want to extend it lat...
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—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 281 Oct 12, 2008