unicorn

Definitions

• A mythical beast resembling a horse or deer with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
• (historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin m a reem or wild ox.
• Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, .
• A caterpillar, , with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.
• The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
• (military) A howitzer.
• Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
• (attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.
• (historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.