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centaur

[sen-tawr] / ˈsɛn tɔr /


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Other portraits feature a loser’s face on a shirtless firefighter sitting near a blaze, and another member’s image atop a centaur.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Science Daily

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

From New York Times

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

From Scientific American

Mythical hybrid beasts such as mermaids, centaurs and chimeras testify to our enduring fascination with the plasticity of biological form: the idea that natural organisms can mutate or be reconfigured.

From Scientific American