TAURUS

From The Chaldean word tur. See: Tur

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taurus. Taurus, n. the bull, a sign in the zodiac

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‖Tau″rus (?), n. [[L., akin to Gr. ταυ̑ροσ, and E. steer. See Steer a young ox.]] 1. 1. (Astron.) (a) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; — marked thus in almanacs. (b) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.
2. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.