unicorn : Idioms & Phrases

Index

common unicorn plant

  • noun annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak
    ram's horn; Proboscidea louisianica; elephant-tusk; devil's claw; common devil's claw; proboscis flower.
WordNet

Fossil unicorn, ∨ 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.
Webster 1913

sea unicorn

Sea" u"ni*corn
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The narwhal.
Webster 1913

sweet unicorn plant

  • noun a herbaceous plant of the genus Proboscidea
    Martynia fragrans; Proboscidea fragrans.
WordNet

Unicorn fish, Unicorn whale

  • (Zoöl.), the narwhal.
Webster 1913

Unicorn moth

  • (Zoöl.), a notodontian moth (Coelodasys unicornis) whose caterpillar has a prominent horn on its back; called also unicorn prominent.
Webster 1913

Unicorn root

  • noun any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic
    colic root; star grass; crow corn; colicroot.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), a name of two North American plants, the yellow-flowered colicroot (Aletris farinosa) and the blazing star (Chamælirium luteum). Both are used in medicine.
Webster 1913

Unicorn shell

  • (Zoöl.), 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.
Webster 1913