Bucephalus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Bucephalus
C17: from Latin, from Greek Boukephalos , from bous ox + kephalē head
Example Sentences
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Colin Firth plays Sir Bucephalus Hodge, a bigwig whose exact credentials escape me, but who’s giving the university a new science building.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
Not written poetry, or doggerel comparing every allowance-race winner to Shadowfax or Bucephalus, but the aesthetic intensity one experiences in the presence of the inexplicable.
From Time • May 3, 2013
Alexander calmed the horse, whose name was Bucephalus, by speaking gently.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Read any history of Alexander and Bucephalus, his horse and constant companion, looms large.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2010
In S. Africa the Bucephalus capensis presents an analogous difference, for the female “is never so fully variegated with yellow on the sides, as the male.”
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Darwin, Charles
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