horn

noun

1. 1.

   countablezootomy

   A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

2. 2.

   uncountable

   The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.

3. 3.

   Any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn

4. 4.

   Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.

5. 5.

   A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.

6. 6.

   An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.

verb

1. 1.

   transitiveof an animal

   To assault with the horns.

2. 2.

   transitive

   To furnish with horns.

3. 3.

   intransitivesingaporeindia

   To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.

Inflected forms

Grammatical variations of the same word.

• hornedadjectiveInflected form

  Having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• horned pondweednounCompound term

  Found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water.

• horned poppynounCompound term

  Yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America.

• horned poutnounCompound term

  Catfish common in eastern United States.

• horned puffinnounCompound term

  Northern Pacific puffin.

• horned rattlesnakenounCompound term

  Small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States.

• horned screamernounCompound term

  Screamer having a hornlike process projecting from the forehead.