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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 (Zoöl.), a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head. -- Horned dace (Zo…

The condition of being horned.

Having horns spreading widely.

Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennæ, as certain beetles (Longicornia).

Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.

e a fish. Capricorn beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Carambucidæ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.

Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.

A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).

The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.

Horned; having horns. Dr. H. More.

Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped.

the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.