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Bu⋅ceph⋅a⋅lus

  [byoo-sef-uh-luhs]
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–noun
the horse used by Alexander the Great on most of his military campaigns.
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Bu·ceph·a·lus   (byōō-sěf'ə-ləs)   
n.  Alexander the Great's war horse.
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Bucephalus 
1601, Alexander the Great's favorite horse, from Gk. Boukephalos, lit. "Ox-head," from bous "ox" + kephale "head."
"Men called [him] Bucephalus ... of the marke or brand of a buls head, which was imprinted vpon his shoulder." [Pliny, I.220, tr. Holland, 1601]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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