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Bicorn vs Unicorn - What's the difference?

bicorn | unicorn |

As nouns the difference between bicorn and unicorn

is that bicorn is (mathematics) a plane curve having two cusps while unicorn is a mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.

As an adjective bicorn

is having two horns.

bicorn

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having two horns.

    • Synonyms

    * bicorned * bicornous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A plane curve having two cusps

    • Anagrams

    *

    unicorn

    English

    (wikipedia unicorn)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rft-sense)A mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
  • 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.
  • (historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ); a reem or wild ox.
  • *
    • God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn : he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
  • Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax.
  • The larva of a unicorn moth.
  • The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
  • A howitzer.

    • Hyponyms

    * pegacorn, unipeg, unisus

    Meronyms

    *

    Holonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * Chinese unicorn * Invisible Pink Unicorn * unicorn bait * unicorn root * unicornlike

    See also

    * alicorn * bicorne * monoceros * reem * tricorn, tricorne