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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 uni·corn /ˈjunəˌkɔrn/
 獨角獸;獨角野牛

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 U·ni·corn n.
 1. A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.
 2. A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures.
    Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?   --Job xxxix. 10.
 Note:The unicorn mentioned in the Scripture was probably the urus. See the Note under Reem.
 3. Zool. (a) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax. (b) The larva of a unicorn moth.
 4. Zool. The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird.
 5. Mil. A howitzer. [Obs.]
 Fossil unicorn, or Fossil unicorn's horn Med., a substance formerly of great repute in medicine; -- named from having been supposed to be the bone or the horn of the unicorn.
 Unicorn fish, Unicorn whale Zool., the narwhal.
 Unicorn moth Zool., a notodontian moth (Coelodasys unicornis) whose caterpillar has a prominent horn on its back; -- called also unicorn prominent.
 Unicorn root Bot., a name of two North American plants, the yellow-flowered colicroot (Aletris farinosa) and the blazing star (Chamaelirium luteum). Both are used in medicine.
 Unicorn shell Zool., any one of several species of marine gastropods having a prominent spine on the lip of the shell. Most of them belong to the genera Monoceros and Leucozonia.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 unicorn
      n : an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a
          long horn growing from its forehead

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Unicorn
    described as an animal of great ferocity and strength (Num.
    23:22, R.V., "wild ox," marg., "ox-antelope;" 24:8; Isa. 34:7,
    R.V., "wild oxen"), and untamable (Job 39:9). It was in reality
    a two-horned animal; but the exact reference of the word so
    rendered (reem) is doubtful. Some have supposed it to be the
    buffalo; others, the white antelope, called by the Arabs rim.
    Most probably, however, the word denotes the Bos primigenius
    ("primitive ox"), which is now extinct all over the world. This
    was the auerochs of the Germans, and the urus described by
    Caesar (Gal. Bel., vi.28) as inhabiting the Hercynian forest.
    The word thus rendered has been found in an Assyrian inscription
    written over the wild ox or bison, which some also suppose to be
    the animal intended (comp. Deut. 33:17; Ps. 22:21; 29:6; 92:10).