horn-bearing
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom horn + bearing. Compare Old English hornbǣre (“horn-bearing”).
Adjective
edithorn-bearing (comparative more horn-bearing, superlative most horn-bearing)
- Having or equipped with horns; horned
- 1914, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections:
- 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.
- 1998, Peter Dodson, The Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History:
- 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.