CENTAUR

n. fabled monster being half man and half horse (Greek Mythology)

In Greek mythology, the Centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attic vase-paintings, they are depicted as the torso of a human joined at the (human's) waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be.This half-human and half-animal composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, and as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.The centaurs descended from Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. Centaurus was the son of either Ixion and Nephele (the cloud made in the image of Hera) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the latter version of the story his twin brother was Lapithus, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.
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Noun
1. a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
(synonym) Centaurus, The Centaur
(hypernym) constellation
(member-meronym) Alpha Centauri, Rigil Kent, Rigil

Noun
1. (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
(hypernym) mythical monster, mythical creature
(classification) classical mythology

n. centaur, fabled monster being half man and half horse (Greek Mythology)

(n.)
A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
  

(n.)
A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.