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tauriform
[ tawr-uh-fawrm ]
adjective
- shaped like a bull or the head or horns of a bull.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tauriform1
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Example Sentences
Diana of Ephesus, the Moon wore the image of a crab on her bosom, because in that sign was the Moon's domicile; and lions bore up the throne of Horus, the Egyptian Apollo, the Sun personified, for a like reason: while the Egyptians consecrated the tauriform scarabæsus to the Moon, because she had her place of exaltation in Taurus; and for the same reason Mercury is said to have presented Isis with a helmet like a bull's head.
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Associated words: tauriform, taurine, bovine, bellow. bulldoze, v.
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