horn-bearing

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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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.