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Word: centaur (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A skillful horseman or horsewoman.
  • astronomy An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune
  • astronomy An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalized).
  • rocketry A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
  • greekmyth A mythical beast having a horse's body with a human head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
  • greekmyth One of a race of monsters having a head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.

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