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Horned

Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.

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Antlered 84% connected

Furnished with antlers.

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Antlered 84% connected

Furnished with antlers.

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Bicorn 84% connected

Alt. of Bicornous

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Bicorn 84% connected

Alt. of Bicornous

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Bicorned 84% connected

Alt. of Bicornous

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Bicorned 84% connected

Alt. of Bicornous

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Hollow-horned 84% connected

Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

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Hollow-horned 84% connected

Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

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Horny 84% connected

Having horns or hornlike projections.

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Horny 84% connected

Having horns or hornlike projections.

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Antler noun · 78% connection

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

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Appendaged adjective · 78% connection

Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.

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Ascidium noun · 78% connection

A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps…

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Bos noun · 78% connection

A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold…

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Cerargyrite noun · 78% connection

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knif…

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Corniculum noun · 78% connection

A small hornlike part or process.

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Cornific adjective · 78% connection

Producing horns; forming horn.

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Cornification noun · 78% connection

Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.

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Corniform adjective · 78% connection

Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.

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Corniplume noun · 78% connection

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

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Corno di bassetto unknown · 78% connection

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

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Cornu noun · 78% connection

A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

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Cornuted adjective · 78% connection

Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped.

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Corny adjective · 78% connection

Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

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Cuff noun · 78% connection

Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an…

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Dehorn verb · 78% connection

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.

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Dishorn verb · 78% connection

To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle.

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Dodded adjective · 78% connection

Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn.

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