centaur

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No one can convince her otherwise, and she decides to win her spouse back with an enchanted robe that the dying centaur Nessus told her was a love charm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

For their investigations, the research team was allowed to take five small samples from the back of the centaur head.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

In another hall, art students sketched a sculpture of a centaur from the Parthenon Marbles.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Sagittarius is generally depicted as the Archer, a centaur holding a bow.

From Scientific American • Aug. 4, 2023

A movement in the trees behind Ronan made Hagrid raise his bow again, but it was only a second centaur, black-haired and -bodied and wilder-looking than Ronan.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling