Definition of Horned

1. Adjective. Having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind. "Long-horned cattle"


Definition of Horned

1. a. Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.

Definition of Horned

1. Adjective. Having, or containing horns. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Horned

1. horn [v] - See also: horn

Medical Definition of Horned

1. Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. "The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip." (Coleridge) Horned bee, a large North American owl (Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in colour, and inhabiting different regions; called also great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared. Horned poppy. See Cerastes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horned

hornbeam
hornbeams
hornbill
hornbills
hornblende
hornblendes
hornblendic
hornblower
hornblowers
hornbook
hornbooks
hornbug
hornbugs
horndog
horndogs
horned (current term)
horned asp
horned chameleon
horned dinosaur
horned frog
horned lark
horned lizards
horned owl
horned owls
horned pondweed
horned poppy
horned pout
horned puffin
horned rattlesnake

Literary usage of Horned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1898)
"Pacific horned Owl.— JA A ' Nature's Diary.'5 —Under this title Mr. Francis II. Allen has brought together a large number of selections from the works of ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"horned animal», mode of determining the age of, I. 183, 1 c. horned FROG, VIII. ... horned helmet, cameo shell, III. 652, 2 a. See HELMET SHELL. ..."

3. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"Altogether, these lizards are so spiny in their general make-up as to appear quite formidable to the observer uninitiated in their habits. The horned ..."

4. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1840)
"horned-OWL. Bill short, stout, broader than high at the base, compressed toward the end; upper mandible with its dorsal line curved from the base, ..."

5. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"These insects, known as the long-horned grasshoppers, ... They are delicate insects, much more fragile than the short-horned grasshoppers, and are great ..."

6. Explorations in Turkestan, Expedition of 1904: Prehistoric Civilizations of by Raphael Pumpelly (1908)
"In various earlier publications, I have several times expressed the opinion that the short-horned cattle of the turbary man of Europe (Bos ..."

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