Hippotaur

Quick meaning: Hippotaur is a noun meaning A creature that is half bull and half horse.

Meaning

A creature that is half bull and half horse.

More Meanings

1. (furry fandom) A taur with the lower body of a hippopotamus.

Example Sentences

Theagenes was extolled to the skies for having welded the novel team into a hippotaur.

Hence, we have a Thessalian doing battle not with a man-horse (centaur) but with a bull-horse (hippotaur), and although the analogy has its weaknesses, it is certainly suggestive of the earlier fight.

The striking image of his horse in parallel to the bull so that they look like a hybrid animal, a hippotaur, governed by one man (29,5), makes true the image of the Lapiths defeating the hybrid Centaurs pictured on his mantle (3,3,5).

So precisely did he correlate the speed of the two racing animals animals that from a distance the two heads sprang from a single neck, and they acclaimed Theagenes as a hero who had brought so strange a team, a hippotaur, a creature half bull, half horse, beneath the yoke.

Word Forms

• hippotaurs

Synonyms for hippotaur

Depending on context, synonyms include jumart.

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