Definition for MIN'O-TAUR

MIN'O-TAUR, n. [Fr. minotaure; It. minatauro; L. minotaurus; from man, which must have been in early ages a Latin word, and taurus, a bull.]

A fabled-monster, half man and half bull. – Ovid. Virgil. Shak.

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