Min|o|taur

Min|o|taur
Min|o|taur «MIHN uh tr», noun.
Greek Legend. a monster with a bull's head and a man's body (or, in some accounts, with a man's head and a bull's body), kept in the Labyrinth at Crete, where every year it devoured seven Athenian youths and seven maidens offered in tribute. Theseus killed the Minotaur.
[< Latin Mīnōtaurus < Greek Minōtauros < Mínos Minos + taûros bull]

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