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Tau·rus (tôr′əs)

noun

  1. a N constellation between Aries and Orion containing the Hyades and the Pleiades star clusters, the Crab nebula, and the bright star Aldebaran; the Bull
  2. the second sign of the zodiac, entered by the sun about April 21
  3. a person born under this sign

Etymology: ME < L, bull, ox, prob. < IE *tauros < base *tēu-, to swell > thumb, L tumere, to swell

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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