Winged unicorn - Wikipedia Winged unicorn Not to be confused with flying horse or winged horse. This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French. ( July 2015 ) Click for important translation instructions. View a machine - translated version of the French article. Machine translation like Deepl or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy - pasting machine - translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low - quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign - language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary ( using German ) : Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at ( ( : de : Exact name of German article ) ) ; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template ( ( Translated fr Licorne ailée ) ) to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia : Translation. Look up pegacorn, unisus, or unipeg in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A winged unicorn ( or flying unicorn ) is a fictional horse with wings like Pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. This creature has no specific name, but in some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a Latin word for the horn of a unicorn, especially in alchemical texts, or as a pegacorn, a portmanteau of a pegasus and unicorn. Contents 1 Description 2 In popular culture 3 Notes 4 References Description A winged unicorn on the Manège d'Andréa Winged unicorns have been depicted in art. Ancient Achaemenid Assyrian seals depict winged unicorns and winged bulls as representing evil, but winged unicorns can also represent light. Irish poet W.B. Yeats wrote of imagining a winged beast that he associated with ecstatic destruction. The beast took the form of a winged unicorn in his 1907 play The Unicorn from the Stars and later that of the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem in his poem `` The Second Coming ''. In popular culture Detail of the embroidered dress of an Apkallu, showing 4 - legged winged and horned animals. From Nimrud, Iraq. 883 - 859 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul Tokimeki Tonight features them as part of a royal crest visible on a throne in the Underworld. A character named Whisper appears in Whisper, the Winged Unicorn ( sticker book, 1983 ), story by Karen Styles, and Whisper 's Golden Friend ( sticker book, 1986 ) by Jill Wolf. She - Ra, a spin - off of Mattel 's Masters of the Universe, features Swift Wind. In Hasbro 's My Little Pony Tales episode `` Up, Up and Away '', Dazzleglow, a leader of extraterrestrial pegasi, has a unicorn horn. The character 's colour and other appearance is based on a Glow ' n Show unicorn character of the same name released during the original generation of the My Little Pony toy line, but the Tales incarnation of Dazzleglow with a pair of wings was never released as a toy. Arthur features a winged `` My Fluffy Unicorn '' toy that D.W. names `` Uni '' is the focus of `` Hic or Treat '' when she considers giving it to the Tibbles. In Valkyria Chronicles ( 2008 ), the princess Cordelia wears a winged unicorn hat. In the universe of My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic, the rare and powerful winged unicorns, referred to as alicorns, play a role as ponies of royal status in Equestria. Such characters include Princesses Celestia, Luna, Cadance, Twilight Sparkle ( who was a unicorn until `` Magical Mystery Cure '' ) and Cadance 's daughter Flurry Heart. In Sofia the First episode `` Baileywhoops '', Cedric turns a merry - go - round of unicorns into winged ones. The episode `` The Mystic Isles '' features winged unicorns. In Little Charmers episode `` A Charmazing Race '', Hazel Charming 's racing broom has a unicorn horn and wings. In 2016, video game heroine Cora Veralux is depicted wearing a winged unicorn turtleneck as a cadet. Ever since their introduction in Fire Emblem Gaiden in 1992, members of the `` Falcon Knight '' class in the Fire Emblem series ride winged unicorns. In the Penn Zero : Part - Time Hero episode `` Alpha, Bravo, Unicorn, '' the dragons of Dragon World are at war with unicorns that have wings and Australian accents. In the Adventures of the Merkles, Amber was a winged unicorn which was Princess Melody 's steed when she lived with Dune, an evil Fairy who was once Princess Henrietta. Notes Jump up ^ In the earlier seasons of the My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic television series, the species is not specifically named ; for example, the royal alicorn sisters Celestia and Luna were referred as unicorns in first season 's first episode `` Friendship Is Magic - Part 1 '' despite having wings. However, an amulet with a pair of wings and a unicorn head is referred as the `` Alicorn Amulet '' in the third season 's fifth episode `` Magic Duel '' ( written by M.A. Larson ), and the species is explicitly named `` alicorn '' in its season finale `` Magical Mystery Cure '' ( also written by Larson ). References Jump up ^ Shepard, Odell ( 1930 ). The Lore of the Unicorn. London : Unwin and Allen. ISBN 9781437508536. Jump up ^ Brown, Robert ( 2004 ). The Unicorn : A Mythological Investigation. Kessinger Publishing. p. 18. ISBN 9780766185302. Jump up ^ Von Der Osten, Hans Henning ( June 1931 ). `` The Ancient Seals from the Near East in the Metropolitan Museum : Old and Middle Persian Seals ''. The Art Bulletin. 13 ( 2 ) : 221 -- 41. JSTOR 3050798. Jump up ^ Ward, David ( Spring 1982 ). `` Yeats 's Conflicts with His Audience, 1897 -- 1917 ''. ELH. 49 ( 1 ) : 155 -- 6. JSTOR 2872885. Jump up ^ Tokimeki Tonight. Episode 4. 4 November 1982. Jump up ^ Whisper the Winged Unicorn Jump up ^ Whisper 's Golden Friend Jump up ^ Princess of Power Magazine issue 2. April 1986. She - Ra and her winged unicorn Swift Wind Jump up ^ `` Hic or Treat ''. Arthur. Season 11. Episode 142. 4 September 2007. Jump up ^ Faust, Lauren. `` Friendship Is Magic - part 1 ''. My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic. Season 1. Hasbro Studios. Jump up ^ Larson, M.A. `` Magic Duel ''. My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic. Season 3. Hasbro Studios. Jump up ^ Larson, M.A. `` Magical Mystery Cure ''. My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic. Season 3. Hasbro Studios. Jump up ^ `` Baileywhoops ''. Sofia the First. Episode 41. 7 November 2014. Jump up ^ Charming, Hazel ( 29 January 2016 ). `` A Charmazing Race ''. Little Charmers. 7 minutes in. It 's my unicorn wings, they want to fly over all the rainbows like unicorns do. Jump up ^ Ratchet and Clank ( film ). 64 minutes in. 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Question: what is a horse called when it has wings and a horn
Answer: A winged unicorn