||Tau"rus (t&add;"rŭs), n. [L., akin to Gr. tay^ros, and E. steer. See Steer a young ox.]
1.
(Astron.) (a) The Bull; the
second in order of the
twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun
enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [&taurus;] in almanacs.
(b) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well- known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter
of which is
situated the remarkably bright
Aldebaran.
2.
(Zoöl.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.
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