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How to pronounce centaur in English?

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Synonyms centaurus
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Type of mythical creature, mythical monster
Has types chiron

Examples of centaur

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Centaur eventually flew toward the Cabeus crater, followed by a hurtling LCROSS.
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The torso comes apart and kids can change their doll into a mermaid or a centaur.
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Investigating, they discover eight-legged centaur-like creatures abroad in London.
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He dressed himself like a centaur working the grill at a college football tailgate.
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Neither pedestrian nor driver, he is a happy anomaly, a 20th century centaur.
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Any centaur that is perturbed close enough to the Sun is expected to become a comet.
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The infant was given over to be raised by the good and wise centaur Chiron.
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Tyler, depicted as a wigged centaur, snorts a massive pile of white powder.
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Chiron, the only centaur with known cometary activity, appears to be the most complex.
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  • (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
  • Centaurus: a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
  • A centaur (/u02C8su025Bntu0254u02D0r/; Greek: u039Au03ADu03BDu03C4u03B1u03C5u03C1u03BFu03C2, Ku00E9ntauros, Latin: centaurus), or occasionally hippocentaur, is a mythological creature with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse.
  • Fairies, in the fictional series Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, are beings, usually shorter than a human, who possess magic properties. The average height of a fairy is exactly 1 metre, one centimetre. All the fairies have retreated below the Earth to escape the destructiveness of the human race. ...
  • Centaur was formed in 2000 by Hum founder Matt Talbott, with Jim Kelly of Sixteen Tons on drums and Derek Niedrignhaus of Castor on bass. Their debut album, In Streams was released on Hum's label, Martian Go Home Records in late 2001.
  • In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the centaur is a large monstrous humanoid. Based upon the Centaurs of Greek myth, they resemble humans with the lower body of a horse.
  • Centaurs are an unstable orbital class of minor planets that behave with characteristics of both asteroids and comets. They are named after the mythological race of beings, centaurs. ...
  • Centaurs are creatures that are half-horse, half-human. They have the head, torso, and arms of a human but have the lower body of a horse joining at the human's waist. Their horse bodies are generally chestnut coloured with human hair and beards of various colours. ...
  • Centaur is a rocket stage designed for use as the upper stage of space launch vehicles. Centaur boosts its satellite payload to geosynchronous orbit or, in the case of an interplanetary space probe, to or near to escape velocity. ...