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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

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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