Crossword clues for horned
horned
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horned \Horned\,
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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 (Zo["o]l.), a British wild bee ( Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head.
Horned dace (Zo["o]l.), an American cyprinoid fish ( Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chu
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See Illust. of Chub.
Horned frog (Zo["o]l.), a very large Brazilian frog ( Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids.
Horned grebe (Zo["o]l.), a species of grebe ( Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head.
Horned horse (Zo["o]l.), the gnu.
Horned lark (Zo["o]l.), the shore lark.
Horned lizard (Zo["o]l.), the horned toad.
Horned owl (Zo["o]l.), 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 color, 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. (Bot.) See Horn poppy, under Horn.
Horned pout (Zo["o]l.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout.
Horned rattler (Zo["o]l.), a species of rattlesnake ( Crotalus cerastes), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder.
Horned ray (Zo["o]l.), the sea devil.
Horned screamer (Zo["o]l.), the kamichi.
Horned snake (Zo["o]l.), the cerastes.
Horned toad (Zo["o]l.), any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard.
Horned viper. (Zo["o]l.) See Cerastes.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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Having horns. Etymology 2
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(en-past of: horn)
WordNet
adj. having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind; "horned viper"; "great horned owl"; "the unicorn--a mythical horned beast"; "long-horned cattle" [ant: hornless]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "horned".
Standing naked before the horned altar, Aganippe struggled to stay awake, murmuring prayers she had recited since girlhood, while they painted her body with yellow ochre-- the earth color.
With the horned moon hooked round the topmost limb, And the owl awatch on the branch below, What is the song of the winds that blow Through your boughs so mysteriously?
The ornithopods, in turn, are close to other contemporary groups, the horned, ceratopsian dinosaurs and the domeheaded pachycephalosaurs.
With the advent of the duckbilled hadrosaurs come lower-slung creatures, also with closely packed, interlocking teeth: the ceratopsians or horned dinosaurs.
In the fourteenth verse of the third part, there come the lines: clomb above the eastern bar the horned Moon, with one bright star within the nether tip.
If Crim and Zamofir had found her, then others would, and that horned bastard would never stop, never, until he killed her and maybe saved the baby to raise, to try again with a Storm Princess raised from me cradle to do his bidding.
Thus the good man believed he would avoid the horned trappings of cuckoldom, and would still be able to girth, bridle, and curb the factious innocence of his wife, which struggled like a mule held by a rope.
In her dark hair was the likeness of the horned moon in honey-coloured cymophanes every stone whereof held a straight beam of light imprisoned that quivered and gleamed as sunbeams quiver wading in the clear deeps of a summer sea.
The horned demon was sitting astride her chest, crushing her lungs with his bearlike bulk, hammering away at her head with his pounding paws, as rhythmically as a dhol player at a Holi celebration.
There were conical hats aplenty, some seemingly horned headpieces, and an endless supply of floaty scarves.
The skulls and chitin headcases of a menagerie glared dead ferocity from its flanks: toothy and agape, flat, eyeless, horned, lamprey-mouthed with cilia-teeth, bone-ridged, shockingly human, intricate.
The intensive development of hadrosaurs, replacing the then extinct iguanodonts, the ankylosaurs replacing stegosaurs, and a widespread expansion of horned dinosaurs are just a few examples of the flourishing fauna of herbivorous dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous.
Bell put his big, horned hand to his face and rubbed his jowly face around.
The Warrior took a stride, planning to cut the Lawgiver off, but his horned adversary was swifter.
There were foods he had never even heard of: lichee nuts and dried honey dates and curious cakes of rice flour and nuts and red sugar, and horned fish from the sea and many other things.