Monoceros
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Monoceros
C14: via Old French from Latin: unicorn, from Greek monokeros with a single horn, from mono- + keras horn
Example Sentences
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It lies within the faint but imaginative constellation Monoceros, which represents a unicorn in star maps.
From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025
Not to worry, however: This black hole is 1,600 light-years away, in the constellation Ophiuchus; the next nearest known black hole is about 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2022
The alpha Monocerotids have been dubbed unicorn meteors because they radiate from the constellation Monoceros, the Greek word for unicorn, according to EarthSky.
From Fox News • Nov. 21, 2019
The alpha Monocerotids — named after the constellation Monoceros or the Unicorn — most recently produced an outburst in 1995.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2019
Monoceros, fragments of, considered by M. d'Orbigny as a new species.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
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