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well-horned en · ADJ
Meanings
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Having large or fine horns or antlers.
Piebald males often tolerate the presence of several other well-horned males in their vicinity but these can always be graded by colour and clearly represent hierarchically ordered age-classes.
2015, Jonathan Kingdon, The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury, page 586:Bikehandles was a well-horned billy-goat.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 186:In races of sheep where both sexes are equally well horned castration has no effect on the development of horns (the same thing applies in the analogous case of reindeer. […]).
1923, Richard Goldschmidt, translated by William Dakin, The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination, Methuen & Co., page 153:He was a handsome buck, well horned with a huge rack of antlers; / Tyrrhus’s boys had been feeding him since he’d been torn from his mother’s / Dugs.
2007, Virgil, translated by Frederick Ahl, Aeneid, Oxford University Press, Book 7, 483-5, p. 173:1844, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Vol. XLVII, p. 131, https://books.google.ca/books?id=sGsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131&dq=%22best-horned%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAro7Apf3MAhUJx2MKHSeMCJgQ6AEImgEwGQ#v=onepage&q=%22best-horned%22&f=false
The best horned cattle are those of Dalecarlia.
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