taur
nounUK /ˈtɔː/ · US /ˈtoɹ/
Etymology Clipping of centaur, corresponding to Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of steer.
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Lifestyle Slang A fictional creature, resembling a centaur, with the lower body of some four-or-more-legged animal and an upper body either of an anthropomorphic version of that same animal or (less commonly) of a human or another humanoid creature.
- Near-synonyms: merfur or merperson (piscine lower body), naga or lamia (serpentine lower body)
- His character was a husky taur with dark red fur.
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- Tails and wings both greatly affect clothing choices, same with taur species.2021, Ian Madison Keller, Mary E. Dowd, Furry Fiction Is Everywhere: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Anthropomorphic Characters, Rainbow Dog Books, →ISBN, page 58:
- Derived terms
- hextaur, taur train