[
US
/ˈhɔɹnd/
]
[ UK /hˈɔːnd/ ]
[ UK /hˈɔːnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind
great horned owl
the unicorn--a mythical horned beast
long-horned cattle
horned viper
How To Use horned In A Sentence
- I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
- It seemed to have been shoehorned into the schedules as an afterthought.
- Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
- The banner is the Horned Shield on a flame-colored background with buckskin fringe.
- Cymbopogon spp. (ganaune gans) is another short grass species that occurs in distinct associations on the floodplain and is eaten by greater one-horned rhinoceroses and elephants. Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
- Like most owls, Great Horned Owls have keen hearing and keen vision in low light, both adaptations for hunting at night.
- The juniper forest of north central Baluchistan is believed to be the most extensive remaining in the world and is home to the distinctive and highly threatened Baluchistan bear and straight-horned markhor. Baluchistan xeric woodlands
- The once-widespread scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah, EW) and bubal hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus) have been exterminated entirely from the region. South Saharan steppe and woodlands
- With some horned helmets and a couple of axes they would have fitted right in on the deck of a longship.
- Yet a number of the large animal species found at La Brea are no longer found in North America: native horses, camels, mammoths and mastodons, longhorned bison, and sabre-toothed cats.