semitaur

Alternative forms
semitaure, semitawre

Etymology
Latin semi-, 'half', + taurus, 'bull'.

Noun

 * 1) A mythical beast, half man, half bull.
 * 2) * 1592, Nicholas Breton, The pilgrimage to paradise, ioyned with the Countesse of Penbrookes loue, compiled in verse by Nicholas Breton Gentleman, Ioseph Barnes, page 8:
 * Some semitawres, and some more halfe a beare Other halfe swine deepe wallowing in the miers.