Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fabulous monster, a kind of centaur, with a body part human and part asinine, represented in Roman sculpture.

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  • noun a centaur with the body of an ass instead of a horse

Etymologies

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Late Latin onocentaurus, from Ancient Greek ὀνοκένταυρος (onokentauros), from ὄνος (onos, "ass") + κένταυρος (kentauros, "centaur").

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