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Monoceros   Listen
noun
Monoceros  n.  
1.
A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn. "Mighty monoceroses with immeasured tails."
2.
(Astron.) The Unicorn, a constellation situated to the east Orion.





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"Monoceros" Quotes from Famous Books



... where many new forms have been created, and whither these two great conchological provinces have each sent up several colonists. The American province has also sent here representative species; for there is a Galapageian species of Monoceros, a genus only found on the west coast of America; and there are Galapageian species of Fissurella and Cancellaria, genera common on the west coast, but not found (as I am informed by Mr. Cuming) in the central islands of the Pacific. On the other hand, there are Galapageian species of Oniscia ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin


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