Crossword clues for staghorn
staghorn
Wiktionary
n. The antlers of a stag when used to make handles etc.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Staghorn may refer to:
- The Horn (anatomy) of a stag
- Staghorn calculus, a type of kidney stone
- Staghorn coral, a branching coral
- Rhus typhina, a shrub commonly called Staghorn sumac
- Lycopodium clavatum, a moss commonly called Staghorn moss
- Platycerium, a fern commonly called Staghorn fern
- Pacific staghorn sculpin, a type of fish
- Staghorn (He-Man), an action figure from the Mattel
- Struvite, a type of kidney stone, also referred to as Staghorn calculus
Usage examples of "staghorn".
When the hunters tired of fishing, and when they wearied of crossing the sand-dunes and the glaring, shimmering beachglaring and shimmering on every fine day of summer-to poke off the mussels and spear the butterfish and groper, they pushed through the Ceratopetalums and the burrawangs, and, following the tortuous bed of the principal creek amid the ferns and the moss and the vines and the myrtles, gradually ascending, they entered the sub-tropical patch where the ferns were huge and lank and staghorns clustered on rocks and trees, and the beautiful Dendrobium clung, and the supplejacks and leatherwoods and bangalow palms ran up in slender height, and that pretty massive parasite-the wild fig-made its umbrageous shade, as has been written.
Most of the infidels had already vanished into the heavily-timbered slot of the Rye River valley, leading sturdy Terran mules and New Hebridan staghorns laden with ammunition, small arms, and rocket and grenade launchers.
There were dozens of different corals: pink staghorn and golden elkhorn, diaphanous finger coral and tiger-striped fan, contorted spheres of brain coral, sweeping sheets of queen's lace, and more than even Tanetoa could name.
As he neared the reef, thickets of jewel-colored staghorn coral rose from the bottom, filling the water with a luminous garden of tangled scarlet branches and sapphire starbursts.
Already he found himself forgetting that something like an occluded front seemed to have swept over his memories of Sylvie, which he had thought as hard and changeless as anything he owned, but which when he touched them now seemed to have turned to autumn leaves like fairy gold, turned to wet earth, staghorn, snails' shells, fauns' feet.
The frontiersman whipped out a scalping knife with a staghorn handle.
Six magazine racks, two sets of monogrammed highball glasses, twelve egg coddlers, a dozen staghorn steak knives.
Burak reported 35 orchids totaling $1400, a $200 staghorn fern, 10 hanging plants totaling $150, five potted plants totaling $200, and three metal patio chairs totaling $150 missing.