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horn-bearing

horn-bearing adjective: having or equipped with horns; horned.

Adjective

horn-bearing (comparative more horn-bearing, superlative most horn-bearing)

  1. Having or equipped with horns; horned
    • There are to be found among most kinds of hornbearing animals individuals with horns of wholly exceptional size, just as among all nations there are individuals of wholly exceptional height.1914, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
    • In modern horn-bearing mammals, the bovids (such as sheep, cattle, and antelope), the horn sheath extends a variable, and often considerable, distance beyond the tip of the horn core.1998, Peter Dodson, The Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History

Forms of horn-bearing

comparativemore horn-bearing
superlativemost horn-bearing
alternative formhornbearing

Origin of horn-bearing

From horn + bearing. Compare Old English hornbǣre (“horn-bearing”).

Questions about horn-bearing

What does horn-bearing mean?
Horn-bearing means having or equipped with horns; horned.
What part of speech is horn-bearing?
Horn-bearing is an adjective.

Words near horn-bearing in the dictionary

  1. horn timbers
  2. horn tipper
  3. horn tippers
  4. horn violin
  5. horn violins
  6. horn-bearing
  7. horn-book
  8. horn-dog
  9. horn-dogs
  10. horn-helmeted
  11. horn-mad

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