(noun or adjective) Or centaurus (Latin) or Kentaurous (Greek). A being resembling the combination of a human and a horse, as if the head and neck of the horse were replaced with the head, arm s, and torso of the human. Species alternately classified as "Homo Equus" and "Equus Sapiens", possibly "Kentaurous Sapiens". Family unknown.

Depicted as half man half horse. Represented wisdom and old age. These excellent archers can be found in many Roman and Greek legends.

Egypt. Fauns half-horse men. Centaur wrongly labelled faun; fauns were half goat, half men; centaurs half horse, half men; trunk and arms of man joined to body and legs of horse, as depicted in map. Idea of centaur probably derived from appearance of savage riders. Cavalry still called horsemen.

(classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse

a creature that is half man, half horse

a mythical creature with the head and torso of a man joined to the body of a horse at about where the horse's head and neck should be

a mythological beast with the torso and head of a man, but the hindquarters of a horse

an animal half man and half horse '

Half-man, half-horse, as in classical mythology

Mythological creature; half man and half horse

(n.) A half-man, half-horse from myth and legend, the centaur usually has the upper body (torso) of a man, and the lower body of a four-legged horse.

a monster with the head and trunk of a man and the body of a horse. It carries a club.

In ancient Greek mythology, a fantastical creature with the front of a human and the back of a horse.

Centaurs are relatively small objects (half asteroid, half comet) that are in unstable orbits (on a time scale of millions of years) located between Jupiter and Neptune. About 9 centaurs have been found so far; the largest centaur is 2060 Chiron (which is about 170 km in diameter and has a detectable coma). Centaurs are objects that probably came from the Kuiper belt.

The man-horse of mythology, represented with bow and arrow; also termed Sagittarius or Sagittary

In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attic vase-paintings, they are depicted as the head and torso of a human joined at the (human's) waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be.

An ``outer planet crosser''. A minor body whose heliocentric orbit is between Jupiter and Neptune and typically crosses the orbits of one of the other outer giant planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). The orbits of the Centaurs are dynamically unstable due to interactions with the giant planets, so they must be transition objects from a larger reservoir of small bodies to potentially active inner solar system objects. The Kuiper belt is believed to be this source reservoir.

The Centaur is an upper stage rocket designed for use on satellite launch vehicles, boosting the satellite into its final orbit or, in the case of interplanetary probes, to escape velocity. Centaur was the world's first high-energy upper stage, burning liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX). Centaur has had a long and successful history in planetary exploration.

The centaurs are a class of icy planetoids named after the mythical race of centaurs. Centaurs orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune, crossing the orbits of the large gas giant planets. The first centaur to be discovered was 2060 Chiron in 1977, while the largest currently known is 10199 Chariklo discovered in 1997.