Pegacorn vs Unicorn - What's the difference?
pegacorn | unicorn | Hyponyms |
(label) A horned Pegasus or a winged unicorn.
* {{quote-book
, date = 2006-07-11
, first = Alea
, last = Bushardt
, title = Cloud Filly
, publisher = Trafford Publishing
, isbn = 9781412054294
, oclc = 70231499
, ol = 11713596M
, page = 42
, passage = It was a flying horse — no, a unicorn — or a pegacorn ? — feathery wings outstretched.
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2011-08-18
, first = Jessica S.
, last = Marquis
, title = Raising Unicorns: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Starting and Running a Successful — and Magical! — Unicorn Farm
, publisher = Adams Media
, isbn = 9781440525902
, ol = 25192451M
, page = 18
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=T3rfs4IVgk4C&pg=PA18&dq=pegacorn
, passage = Pegacorns' have grown in both popularity and population since their worldwide introduction during the 1980s. While they had existed for eons prior, few unicorn farmers wished to voluntarily care for both the temperamental nature of the Pegasus and the attention-craving disposition of the unicorn. However, when those farmers had the opportunity to soar high and fast into the clouds on the ' Pegacorn , they had an abrupt change of opinion.
}}
* {{quote-web
, date = 2012-01-15
, title = GlaDOS reads her letter to Princess Celestia
, first = Lauren
, last = Davis
, site = io9
, url = http://io9.com/5876240/glados-reads-her-letter-to-princess-celestia
, passage = At the end of each episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic , one of the show's cartoon ponies dictates a letter to the pegacorn Princess Celestia, telling her what she's learned about friendship.
}}
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(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.
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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.
Unicorn is a hyponym of pegacorn.
As nouns the difference between pegacorn and unicorn
is that pegacorn is a horned Pegasus or a winged unicorn while unicorn is a mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.pegacorn
English
(winged unicorn)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (informal) unipeg, unisus * (nonstandard)Meronyms
*unicorn
English
(wikipedia unicorn)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
