bucentaur

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A supposed mythical monster, half ox, half man.
2. noun A Venetian barge modelled on the state barge (called Bucentaur) used annually on Ascension Day in the ancient ceremony of the marriage of the state with the Adriatic.

Similar words

centaure semitaur hippocentaur onocentaur centauroid centaurian centauran satyral bicorn hircocervus

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