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A winged unicorn (cerapter, flying unicorn, unisus, or unipeg) is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like a pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. [1] In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a word derived from the Italian word alicorno, [2] or as a pegacorn, a portmanteau of pegasus and ...
An equine form of the unicorn was mentioned by the ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, [2] and Cosmas Indicopleustes. [3] The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em, which some translations render as unicorn. [2] The unicorn continues to hold a place in ...
This creature was called "Ma Nin Mangkorn" (Thai: ม้านิลมังกร, "ceylonite dragon horse"), it is depicted as it has diamond fangs, ceylonite scales, and a birthmark on the tongue. It was a mixture of horse, dragon, deer antlers, fish scales, and Phaya Nak tail, with has black sequins all over. Its appearance resembles a qilin.
The best known Elasmotherium species, E. sibiricum, sometimes called the Siberian unicorn, [4] was among the largest known rhinoceroses, with an estimated body mass of around 4.5 tonnes (9,900 lb), comparable to an elephant, and is often conjectured to have borne a single very large horn. However, no horn has ever been found, and other authors ...
Gunicorn or Green Unicorn, a port on the Unicorn web server; Invisible Pink Unicorn, a goddess popularized on a Usenet group about atheism, and intended to satirize theistic belief; Licorne (disambiguation) (French: , lit. 'unicorn') Monoceros, the constellation of the Unicorn; Narwhal or Unicorn whale, an Arctic species of whale with a tusk on ...
Secret, from Gina Bertaina's The Secret Horse [2] Shadowfax, the horse ridden by Gandalf the White in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; Sham from King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry; Silver Blaze, from the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle; Sir Chess, the Knight Destrier, in Linda Medley's Castle ...
Enbarr, Manannán, Niamh, and Lugh's horse, which could travel both land and sea; Kelpie, a mythical Celtic water horse; Liath Macha and Dub Sainglend, or Macha's Grey, Cú Chulainn's chariot horse; known as the king of all horses; The Tangle-Coated Horse/Earthshaker, an Otherworld horse belonging to Fionn mac Cumhaill
Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937). The hippocampus, or hippocamp or hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), sometimes called a "sea-horse" [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature mentioned in Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician, [3 ...