Brewer's: Bucentaur

A monster, half-man and half-ox. The Venetian state-galley employed by the Doge when he went on Ascension Day to wed the Adriatic was so called. (Greek, bous, ox; centauros, centaur.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Bucephalos
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