alicorn

Purported alicorn offered to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I in 1540 (in fact a narwhal tusk)

Meaning

The horn of a unicorn considered as a medical or pharmacological ingredient.
A mythological creature, a mixture of pegasus and unicorn: a winged horse with a single horn on its head.

From Italian alicorno.
Term already associated with unicorns and reinterpreted as a blend of Latin āla with unicorn, popularized by Bearing an Hourglass (1984) and other fantasy novels by Piers Anthony.

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