unicorn bird

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Unicorn \U"ni*corn\, n. [OE. unicorne, F. unicorne, L. unicornis one-horned, having a single horn; unus one + cornu a horn; cf. L. unicornuus a unicorn. See One, and Horn.]

1.A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter. [1913 Webster]

2.A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures. [1913 Webster]

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?— Job xxxix. 10.[1913 Webster]

Note: The unicorn mentioned in the Scripture was probably the urus. See the Note under Reem. [1913 Webster]

3.(Zool.) (a) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax. (b) The larva of a unicorn moth. [1913 Webster]

4.(Zool.) The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird. [1913 Webster]

5.(Mil.) A howitzer. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Fossil unicorn, or Fossil unicorn's horn (Med.), a substance formerly of great repute in medicine; -- named from having been supposed to be the bone or the horn of the unicorn.

Unicorn fish, Unicorn whale (Zool.), the narwhal.

Unicorn moth (Zool.), a notodontian moth (Coelodasys unicornis) whose caterpillar has a prominent horn on its back; -- called also unicorn prominent.

Unicorn root (Bot.), a name of two North American plants, the yellow-flowered colicroot (Aletris farinosa) and the blazing star (Chamaelirium luteum). Both are used in medicine.

Unicorn shell (Zool.), any one of several species of marine gastropods having a prominent spine on the lip of the shell. Most of them belong to the genera Monoceros and Leucozonia. [1913 Webster]