A taur (metanalyzed from centaur), also called a centauroid, is a modern creature of science fiction and fantasy literature. It is a six-limbed creature patterned after a centaur, using four legs for locomotion and two arms for manipulation, and being a composite of two different creatures; often it has the lower body of an animal and the upper body of a human. In many, the "human" part also shares some features of the base animal: the wemic may have leonine facial features, the bariaur has a goat's horns, and the chakat is all covered by fur and has a very feline head. In linguistics, metanalysis is the act of breaking down a word or phrase into segments or meanings not original to it. ... Guido Reni, Abduction of Deianira, 1620-21 In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race part human and part horse, with a horses body, including all four legs, and a human head and torso with arms. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... // For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, games and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... Guido Reni, Abduction of Deianira, 1620-21 In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race part human and part horse, with a horses body, including all four legs, and a human head and torso with arms. ... A wemic (or liontaur) is a fantastical creature found in role-playing games (such as Dungeons & Dragons) and in a small amount of modern fantasy literature. ... Bariaur is the name of a race of goat-taurs, from the 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, most notably in the Planescape setting. ... Jumping Chakat. ...

Though the Greek word kentauros is said to be composed of a single morpheme—perhaps not a Greek one in its origin—the element -taur has been separated (perhaps with influence from "minotaur", another hybrid creature albeit dissimilar in form) in the late 20th century to create a generalized form, "taur". In Morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest language unit that carries a semantic interpretation. ... Minotaur at the Greek pavilion at Expo 88 In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a creature that was part man and part bull. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

In furry fiction and art, -taur is highly productive as a suffix. There are creatures depicted such as wolftaurs, foxtaurs, chakats, and tigertaurs. While the upper half of a centaur is generally human, in furry the upper half of a taur is an anthropomorphized version of the animal lower half. For example, a felitaur will have the arms and upper body of an anthropomorphic feline, and the legs and lower body of an ordinary feline. Shanda the Panda #12, an example of a furry comic Furry fandom is a subculture that originated from the science fiction and fantasy fandoms. ... An example of an anthropomorphic animal (by Carrie J. Berman). ... Subfamilies Felinae Pantherinae Acinonychinae Machairodontinae (extinct) All cats are members of the family Felidae. ...

Taurs often appear in sexual contexts, where they may be depicted with either one or two sets of genitalia: the first between their hind legs, which is either horse-like (i.e., centaur-like) or like the lower half's animal; if a second set exists, it is usually between the front legs and more human-like or like the upper half's animal. Sometimes they are not of the same gender; chakats, for example are all hermaphrodite, though their anatomy differs. A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in an complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 nugget For other uses, see Horse (disambiguation). ... The 1st-century BC sculpture The Reclining Hermaphrodite, in the Museo Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme in Rome In zoology, a hermaphrodite is an organism of a species whose members possess both male and female sexual organs during their lives. ...

Occasionally taurs are composed entirely of human elements. A humantaur is a human with four human legs.

In addition, a later variant of the humantaur is the boytaur, who like the humantaur is entirely human, although with four human legs and feet, and front and hind human genitalia. Additional variants include six-leggedness and wristfootedness, the latter being characterized by human feet replacing hands, mounted on the wrists (wristfeet), the feet being identical in size and appearance to the boytaur's other feet.

Hextaurs are less frequently depicted, being a kind of taur with six legs instead of four.

Kinds of taurs

• various anthropomorphic species with -taur appended to their names
• the bariaur from Planescape
• baphitaur, baphitaur at the D&D official website, demonic minotaur
• the centaurs from Greek Mythology
• chakat
• the drider from Dungeons & Dragons
• onocentaur, parts human and donkey, from the Middle Ages
• the Nerubian and the Keepers of the Grove from the Warcraft universe. Also notable are the actual Centaur themselves and the Tauren.
• the wemic from the Forgotten Realms

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External links

• Metabods
• Boytaur