Lexic.us

Definition of Bicorn

1. Adjective. Having two horns or horn-shaped parts. "A bicornuate uterus"

2. Noun. A cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points.

Definition of Bicorn

1. a. Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

Definition of Bicorn

1. Noun. (mathematics) A plane curve having two cusps ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bicorn

1. bicorne [n -S] - See also: bicorne

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bicorn

biconditionals bicondylar articulation bicondylar joint bicone bicones biconical biconically biconjugate biconnected bicontinental

bicontinuous biconvex biconvex lens biconvexities biconvexity bicorn (current term) bicornate bicornate uterus bicorne bicorned

bicornes bicornous bicorns bicornuate bicornuous bicorporal bicorporate bicostate bicoudate catheter bicrenate

Literary usage of Bicorn

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

1. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1880)
"... although they coalesce perfectly their internal walls may not disappear, and. thus a septum remain which divides the cavity into two. Fid. 33. bicorn ..."

2. Gipsy Smith's Favourite Solos by Gipsy Smith, William Herbert Jude, Ernest Mathews (1903)
"It is called the bicorn from the shorter markings taking the form of two horns. (6) The Double Selvage,—This is an extension of the bicorn, only that the ..."

3. The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester by James Joseph Sylvester (1908)
"The curve thus denoted I propose to call the bicorn. Its figure is given below [p. ... It is easy to show that the bicorn has no double tangent ..."

4. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1811)
"The fossil species has two horns, but the skull has nothing of the form of the bicorn of Africa. There is a considerable space between the bases of the two ..."

5. Outlines of Oryctology: An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic by James Parkinson (1830)
"The head of the fossil animal, as is shown above, differs from the bicorn of Africa, in having a considerable space between the bases of the two horns; ..."

6. Memoirs on Mathematics and Mathematical Physics: An Extensive Collection Of (1865)
"Thus we see that there is a point of inflexion corresponding to the point at infinity at which the second and third branches of the bicorn may be conceived ..."

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