centaur

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Other portraits feature a loser’s face on a shirtless firefighter sitting near a blaze, and another member’s image atop a centaur.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

For their investigations, the research team was allowed to take five small samples from the back of the centaur head.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

Sagittarius is generally depicted as the Archer, a centaur holding a bow.

From Scientific American • Aug. 4, 2023

The art for his new show “Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist” depicts him as a centaur.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2020

Then there are those beasts that, due to cleverness or innate shyness, avoid contact with Muggles at all costs—for instance, the unicorn, the Mooncalf and the centaur.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling