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           | no wings |  wings
  ---------+----------+--------
  no horn  |  horse   | pegasus
  ---------+----------+--------
  horn     | unicorn  | alicorn


Notice "alicorn" is actually the name of the unicorns' horn, historically.

At some point people started using it for winged unicorns, presumably because "Ali" would be Latin for "wings" but this seems a recent development.


I wonder if it’s My Little Pony related


MLP popularized this usage but it predates that.


I think the one in the first field is known as "pegacorn": http://www.dorktower.com/2018/10/23/my-kingdom-for-a-pegacor...


  sudo pacman -S ponysay
  ponythink this is awesome




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