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ALL meanings of unicorn

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  • noun unicorn a mythical creature resembling a horse, with a single horn in the center of its forehead: often symbolic of chastity or purity. 1
  • noun unicorn a heraldic representation of this animal, in the form of a horse with a lion's tail and with a long, straight, and spirally twisted horn. 1
  • noun unicorn (initial capital letter) Genetics. the constellation Monoceros. 1
  • noun unicorn an animal mentioned in the Bible, Deut. 33:17: now believed by some to be a description of a wild ox or rhinoceros. 1
  • noun unicorn a former gold coin of Scotland, first issued by James III in 1486, having an obverse bearing the figure of a unicorn. 1
  • noun unicorn Finance. a relatively new company, usually less than ten years old, that is valued at $1 billion or more by public or private investors. 1
  • noun unicorn mythology: horse with a horn 1
  • countable noun unicorn In stories and legends, a unicorn is an imaginary animal that looks like a white horse and has a horn growing from its forehead. 0
  • noun unicorn an imaginary creature usually depicted as a white horse with one long spiralled horn growing from its forehead 0
  • noun unicorn a two-horned animal, thought to be either the rhinoceros or the aurochs (Deuteronomy 33:17): mistranslation in the Authorized Version of the original Hebrew 0
  • noun unicorn a mythical horselike animal with a single horn growing from the center of its forehead 0
  • noun unicorn a two-horned, oxlike animal: Deut. 33:17 0
  • noun unicorn (Discuss(+) this sense) A mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead. 0
  • noun unicorn (finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO. 0
  • noun unicorn A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Great Britain and of Scotland. 0
  • noun unicorn (historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם); a reem or wild ox. 0
  • noun unicorn Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus. 0
  • noun unicorn The larva of a unicorn moth. 0
  • noun unicorn The kamichi, or unicorn bird. 0
  • noun unicorn (military) A howitzer. 0
  • noun unicorn (sexual slang) a single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging and/or polyamory. 0
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