Unicorn vs. Pegasus

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A mythical beast resembling a horse or deer with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.

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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.

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(historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ); a reem or wild ox.

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Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.

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The larva of a unicorn moth.

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The kamichi, or unicorn bird.

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(military) A howitzer.

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(sexual slang) A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging and/or polyamory.

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(finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.

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(business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise (due to rarity and value), especially three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).

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(as a modifier) Brilliantly multicoloured.

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A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; - often represented in heraldry as a supporter.

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A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures.

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Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.

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The kamichi; - called also unicorn bird.

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A howitzer.

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an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead

Unicorn

The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. The unicorn was mentioned by the ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian and Cosmas Indicopleustes.

Pegasusnoun

A winged horse (imaginary or mythical, sometimes figurative).

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A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.

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A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.

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A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.

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(Greek mythology) immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa; was tamed by Bellerophon with the help of a bridle given him by Athena; as the flying horse of the Muses it is a symbol of high-flying imagination

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a constellation in the northern hemisphere near Andromeda and Pisces

Pegasus

Pegasus (Greek: Πήγασος, Pḗgasos; Latin: Pegasus, Pegasos) is a mythical winged divine horse, and one of the most recognized creatures in Greek mythology. Usually depicted as pure white, Pegasus is the offspring of the Olympian god Poseidon.