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by sp332 3878 days ago
A pegasus doesn't have a horn. A flying unicorn is usually called an "alicorn" but also pegacorn, unisus, or unipeg. /pedantic
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To be far more pedantic, Pegasus is the name of a single flying horse, it's not the name for horses with wings.
And heaping on, Pegasus was not part of a breed or species. He was a one-off, the offspring of Poseidon and Medusa. He had a brother, Chrysaor, a man.
Obligatory Futurama reference:

  You are technically correct, the best kind
  of correct
:-)
Maybe jgrahamc already edited his comment, but I don't see that he ever said a pegasus had a horn.

On a separate matter, I would prefer to not use either term, but people love these convenient categories.

I was inferring from "unicorn... that might actually take off."
I didn't edit it.