Bicorn

Quick meaning: Bicorn is a noun meaning (mathematics) A plane curve having two cusps.

Meaning

(mathematics) A plane curve having two cusps.

More Meanings

1. Having two horns or similar projections.
2. (historical) A two-cornered hat, worn by European and American military and naval officers from the 1790s.
3. (rare) A beast having two horns, either real or fictional.

Example Sentences

Oooh, look, powdered horn of a Bicorn – don’t know where we’re going to get that …

J’soun removed his helmet to reveal the two small horns atop his head. “Bicorns are the direct descendants of human and demon, though we are accepted by neither.[…]”

Along with the unicorns, came the half-breed and mutated forms of unicorn: the bicorns and tricorns, and all the different breeds of ridgebacks, split-hooves, and pegasus.

But as far as horned species are concerned, if these natural defences were the result of buntings, we should have races of unicorns, not bicorns, that is, the horns ought to have shot out on the spots of the natural “stimulus” from the foreheads, not from the sides!

Word Forms

• bicorns

Synonyms for bicorn

Depending on context, synonyms include bicorned, bicornous, bicornuous, bicornuate, bicorne, bicornate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bicornate, bicornuous, bicornuate, bicorne, bicone, cusp.

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