The Collaborative International Dictionary
Long-horned \Long"-horned`\, a. (Zo["o]l.) [Obs.] Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antenn[ae], as certain beetles ( Longicornia).
Usage examples of "long-horned".
Two hundred mounted axemen preceded and flanked a long and rich train of waggons, a herd of spare horses, and a larger herd of skinny cattle of the long-horned and -haired breed of western and northern Scotland.
They sailed silently over a herd of long-horned bison that straggled for what Arsen computed to be over four statute miles, with bands of the small, big-headed, shaggy horses grazing among the huge, dark-colored bovines.
Long-horned buffalo grazed, tails flipping nervously on their short-haired rumps.
In all their talks, Heron had never mentioned long-horned buffalo in the valley.
A small group of long-horned buffalo stood no more than a dart's throw away, watching curiously, ears flapping, tails switching, a curious gleam in their black eyes.
Musk ox and mammoth and long-horned buffalo were everywhere, thoughand this interesting brown deer, which had a sweet and delicately flavored meat.
Leidecker had drawn an outline on the blackboard that resembled the head of a long-horned steer but was supposed to have been the female reproductive system, and was in the midst of explaining about the egg dropping from the Fallopian tube, and becoming fertilized by one of the minnowlike squiggles swimming up to meet it, when Lana Boutsakaris had raised her hand to ask, But how does the sperm get up there in the first place?
The long-horned sea lions all about might have had a better hold on the beef market if it hadn't been for the fevers that seemed to go with such green and muggy grazing.
Away to his left was a herd of shaggy long-horned cattle, and elsewhere he could see sheep and goats, and even a few horses in a paddock by a small wood.
Several times Rand spotted goats, or sheep, or pale, long-horned cattle in the distance.
They planted no crops, but lived on the fish they caught in basket-traps, and on the herds of stunted long-horned cattle , which were their most prized possessions.
There was no suggestion of hostility, only an intent watchfulness, and they looked so ordinary, like long-horned cattle.
Miners, townsmen, and those who rode herd on the tough, long-horned cattle were coming in, dusty and cursing from work.
The Asian long-horned beetle, introduced to New York in 1996, is expected to wipe out North American maples.