tauriform

[ tawr-uh-fawrm ]

adjective

1. shaped like a bull or the head or horns of a bull.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tauriform¹

From the Latin word tauriformis, dating back to 1715–25. See tauri-, -form

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.

From Project Gutenberg