minotaur

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noun (Greek mythology) a mythical monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain by Theseus

From Middle English Minotaure, Mynataur, mynatour, Mynotaur, Mynotawre; see Minotaur.

Minotaur at the battle of the Nile. — The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes, Charles Dalton
(See 1915, 1916, 1917.) (H.) Food for the Minotaur. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
Not had the Minotaur had twenty bull-heads instead of one. — Tanglewood Tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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