horn-bearing

English

Alternative forms

• hornbearing

Etymology

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

Adjective

horn-bearing (comparative more horn-bearing, superlative most horn-bearing)

1. 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.