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The prefix 'uni' stands for unus or one. The suffix 'corn' stands for cornus or refers to the horn on the unicorn's head. Therefore, the name comes from 'one horn'.
Uni, means "one", and cornus is the latin word for horn. So unicorn means single horned. So it is a one-horned horse.

Uni- from the latin word 'unus' meaning one (eg unicycle- one wheel). Corn-from the latin word 'cornus' meaning horn, so unuscornus, unicorn, one horn.

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They don't have horns, none, nada, they are just elegant glorious horses

The horn is an evolutionary adaptation to some function. Just like a Rhinoceros' horn, or a deer's antlers, or an elephant's tusks. If you wish to know what that adaptation is you must ask a more specific question.

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they are not only those colors they come in blue purple yellow light blue baby blue brown(ugly kind) and WHITE. Unicorns have best friends the ones who shed tears for the lost of a true horse. After a horse dies it become a Unicorn in Unicornipopia(which is in heaven). They rarely come to earth but they make babies up in heaven and send them down to a loyal finder of the horse.

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White is the colour of pureness, and unicorns were believed to be a symbol of pureness. lots and lots of peroxide.

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Because sombody cut your speed. Buy quality.

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βˆ™ 10y ago

Perhaps you mean uniform, not unicorn.

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