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oxhorn

oxhorn noun: the horn of an ox.

Noun

oxhorn (countable and uncountable, plural oxhorns)

  1. The horn of an ox.
    • The horn is made by joining the toothed ends of two pieces of oxhorn together.2000, Howard L. Blackmore, Hunting Weapons: From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, page 134
    • […] a “south Hungarian, Croatian, and Rumanian signal”, played on small horns “mostly made of animal material”—in other words, oxhorns […]2006, Raymond Monelle, The Musical Topic: Hunt, Military and Pastoral, page 88

Forms of oxhorn

pluraloxhorns

Origin of oxhorn

From ox + horn.

Questions about oxhorn

What does oxhorn mean?
Oxhorn means the horn of an ox.
What part of speech is oxhorn?
Oxhorn is a noun.
What is the plural of oxhorn?
The plural of oxhorn is oxhorns.

Words near oxhorn in the dictionary

  1. oxhide ingot
  2. oxhide ingots
  3. oxhides
  4. oxhind
  5. oxhinds
  6. oxhorn
  7. oxhorns
  8. oxi
  9. oxi-
  10. oxia
  11. oxiae

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