cornute
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editcornute (third-person singular simple present cornutes, present participle cornuting, simple past and past participle cornuted)
- (transitive) To give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 357:
- ‘Will you cooperate with me in cornuting your husband? It's a must!’
Adjective
editcornute (comparative more cornute, superlative most cornute)
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editcornute (plural cornutes)
- A member of the order Cornuta.
- 1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 225:
- Stylophorans are divided into two orders the Cornuta and Ankyroida: cornutes have asymmetrical thecae, aulacophores with stylocones and cover plates over the food groove that open widely; ankyroids have essentially bilaterally symmetrical thecae, aulacophores with styloids and in most the cover plates do not open widely.
References
edit- “cornute”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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