One horn a unicorn does not make.
Aside from the unicorn-ish horn, there's nothing equine about this character, unicorn implies equine (Tags are "linked" or however it's called)

You mean, aside from those hooves? ...
She's a unicorn hybrid.

yukifumi said:
You mean, aside from those hooves? ...
She's a unicorn hybrid.

Split hooves =/= equine.
Tag what you see.

Cerbrus said:
Split hooves =/= equine.
Tag what you see.

we give leeway for hybrid characters, since specific species elements are often lost in combining them.

ippiki_ookami said:
we give leeway for hybrid characters, since specific species elements are often lost in combining them.

Seems someone still removed the tag though..

Alicorn would be appropriate, since a unicorn's signiture twisting pearlescent horn is called an alicorn (No, it does not mean a winged unicorn, bronies. Sorry to burst your fandom bubble), but horn works just fine.

123easy said:
Alicorn would be appropriate, since a unicorn's signiture twisting pearlescent horn is called an alicorn (No, it does not mean a winged unicorn, bronies. Sorry to burst your fandom bubble), but horn works just fine.

So THAT'S what it means! Then I suppose an 'alicorn' in the sense of MLP should just be called a 'winged unicorn', right?

Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
So THAT'S what it means! Then I suppose an 'alicorn' in the sense of MLP should just be called a 'winged unicorn', right?

Yup, that's correct. It's actually rather astonishing (and more than a little aggravating) that the word has come to mean winged unicorn within the furry community at large by the popularity explosion of MLP, though I do admit that Lauren Faust has done her homework on this, as the Latin roots for the word ('ala' and 'cornu') basically means 'winged horn', thus calling winged unicorns alicorns does have some etymological sense. This differs from how the word was originally created, which is from a regional variation of the word 'liocorno' (as the original unicorn was rather fierce and a killer of men, not the symbol of purity that we laud it as), which was synonymous with unicorn.

It's still a nonstandard usage to mean "winged unicorn", overall, however.

Cerbrus said:
One horn a unicorn does not make.
Aside from the unicorn-ish horn, there's nothing equine about this character, unicorn implies equine (Tags are "linked" or however it's called)

A unicorn has a long almost prehensile tail with a tuft, a lean and agile body with a tucked in belly, and cloven hooves. A horse has a short tale with very long hair, a heavy set body with a hanging belly, and uncloven hooves. There is every little about a unicorn that could be considered equine, except for the mane and muzzle, but often times, unicorns are also depicted with long beards, like that of a goat, hanging from their chins. Making them tend to be mor caprine and leonin, then equine. So, really, if you look more closly at the body of a unicorn, and compare it to an actual horse, the Unicorn tends to look more like the one horned hybrid offspring of a lion and a goat, not equine at all.