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horn-bearing en · ADJ

Etymology

From horn + bearing. Compare Old English hornbǣre (“horn-bearing”).

Meanings

1. Having or equipped with horns; horned
   • In modern horn-bearing mammals, the bovids (such as sheep, cattle, and antelope), the horn sheath extends a variable, and often considerable, distance beyond the tip of the horn core. 1998, Peter Dodson, The Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History:
   • There are to be found among most kinds of hornbearing animals individuals with horns of wholly exceptional size, just as among all nations there are individuals of wholly exceptional height. 1914, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections:

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