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English
Etymology
From tauri- + Latin cornu (“horn”) + -ous.
Adjective
tauricornous (not comparable)
- (rare) Having horns like those of a bull.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.9:And if (as Macrobius and very good authors concede) Bacchus, (who is also described with horns,) be the same deity with the sun; and if (as Vossius well contendeth) Moses and Bacchus were the same person; their descriptions must be relative, or the tauricornous picture of the one, perhaps the same with the other.
1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 96:It is a pity Tubbs was not an Egyptologist enamoured of the kings or even an enlightened collector, for he had an uncanny gift and could not walk two feet without kicking up an outsize alabaster thumb, a tauricornous amulet, a gold needle, an unnameable something-or-other black with tar […].