tauricornous

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  1. Horned like a bull. And if (as Vossius well contendeth) Moses and Bacchus were the same person, their descriptions must be relative, or the tauricornous picture of one perhaps the same with the other. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 9.

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  1. from French tauricorne, from Late Latin tauricornis, from Latin taurus, bull, + cornu, horn.
 

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