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hippotaur
Hippotaur (noun) means a mythical being that is part bull and part horse.
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A mythical being that is part bull and part horse.
"The striking image of his horse in parallel to the bull so that they look like a hybrid animal, a hippotaur, governed by one man (29,5), makes true the image of the Lapiths defeating the hybrid Centaurs pictured on his mantle (3,3,5)."
— Marília Futre Pinheiro, Animals as a Means of Characterisation in Heliodorus Aethiopica (2023)
"Hence, we have a Thessalian doing battle not with a man-horse (centaur) but with a bull-horse (hippotaur), and although the analogy has its weaknesses, it is certainly suggestive of the earlier fight."
— Shadi Bartsch, FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader (2014)
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Etymology
Traced to Latin hippotaurus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόταυρος (hippótauros), made up of ἵππος (híppos, "horse", English hippo-) and ταῦρος (taûros, "bull").
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"hippotaur" (noun) means a mythical being that is part bull and part horse.
