The bull; one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the second in order, or that next to Aries. This constellation, according to the British catalogue, contains 141 stars.
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1. The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs.
2. 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.
3. A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.
Taurus
Encyclopedia Britannica
TAURUS. See Asia Minor, vol. ii. p. 704-5.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 83
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