See Also: Horned(medicine)
horned owl(encyclopedia)
horned(dictionary)
horned(dictionary)
one-horned uterus(medicine)
hollow-horned(medicine)
horned (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Long-horned(medicine)
horned toad(encyclopedia)
great horned owl(encyclopedia)

horned (iou)



horned adjective. ME.
[from HORN noun, verb: see -ED2, -ED1.]
Wearing or having a horn or horns, spec. designating animals and plants distinguished in this way. ME.
yellow horned: see YELLOW adjective.
H. W. Torrens A peculiar horned or crested helmet. C. Bowen Bull to the horned herd, and the corn to a fruitful plain.
Crescent-shaped. LME.
W. Holtby She..drove out, under a small horned moon.
Made of horn; provided or fitted with horn. LME.
Special collocations & phrases: horned adder = horned viper below. horned cairn Archaeology a type of long barrow with an enclosed forecourt peculiar to Scotland and Ireland. horned dace US a small freshwater cyprinid fish, Semotilus atromaculatus. horned frog (a) = horned toad (a) below; (b) a S. American frog of the genus Ceratophrys, having hornlike projections on its eyelids. horned grebe (chiefly US) = Slavonian grebe s.v. SLAVONIAN adjective 2. horned helmet a large gastropod mollusc, Cassis cornuta, or its shell, from which cameos are cut. horned lark (a) a brown and white lark, Eremophila bilopha, having two black tufts on the head and found in N. African and Arabian deserts (also Temminck's horned lark); (b) (chiefly N. Amer.) = shore lark s.v. SHORE noun1. horned lizard = horned toad below. horned owl an owl having hornlike feathers over the ears; now esp. a large American owl, Bubo virginianus. horned pondweed an aquatic plant, Zannichellia palustris (family Zannichelliaceae), with filiform leaves, small axillary flowers, and beaked achenes. horned poppy any of several glaucous poppies of the genus Glaucium, with very long curved capsules; esp. (more fully yellow horned poppy) G. flavum, a native of shingle beaches. horned pout = hornpout s.v. HORN noun. horned rattlesnake = SIDEWINDER noun2. horned screamer a large greenish-black screamer (bird), Anhima cornuta, of S. American tropical grasslands, having a hornlike quill on the forehead. horned snake (a) = horn-snake s.v. HORN noun; (b) = horned viper below. horned sungem: see SUN noun1. horned syllogism Logic the dilemma. horned toad (a) a small spiny American lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, esp. P. cornutum, sometimes kept as a pet; (b) any of several large Old World toads that have a fleshy 'horn' above the eye. horned viper a venomous N. African desert viper, Cerastes cerastes, having a spine over each eye. Wiltshire Horned sheep: see WILTSHIRE 1.