horned

• POS: Adjective

CIDE DICTIONARY

horned, a. 

 Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.  [1913 Webster]
"The horned moon with one bright star
Within the nether tip."  [1913 Webster]

Horned bee (Zoöl.), a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head. -- Horned dace (Zoöl.), an American cyprinoid fish (Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of Chub. -- Horned frog (Zoöl.), a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids. -- Horned grebe (Zoöl.), a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head. -- Horned horse (Zoöl.), the gnu. -- Horned lark (Zoöl.), the shore lark. -- Horned lizard (Zoöl.), the horned toad. -- Horned owl (Zoöl.), a large North American owl (Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in color, and inhabiting different regions; -- called also great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared. -- Horned poppy. (Bot.) See Horn poppy, under Horn. -- Horned pout (Zoöl.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout. -- Horned rattler (Zoöl.), a species of rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder. -- Horned ray (Zoöl.), the sea devil. -- Horned screamer (Zoöl.), the kamichi. -- Horned snake (Zoöl.), the cerastes. -- Horned toad (Zoöl.), any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard. -- Horned viper. (Zoöl.) See Cerastes.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

horned, adj. having a horn.

Idiom

horned owl an owl, Bubo virginianus, with hornlike feathers over the ears. horned toad
1 an American lizard, Phrynosoma cornutum, covered with spiny scales.
2 any SE Asian toad of the family Pelobatidae, with horn-shaped extensions over the eyes.

THESAURUS

horned

Cynthian, S-shaped, acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, barbed, bicorn, corniform, cornuted, crescent, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, cusped, cuspidate, falcate, falciform, hispid, horn-shaped, horny, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, menisciform, meniscoid, moon-shaped, moonlike, mucronate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, pointed, pronged, semicircular, semilunar, sharp-pointed, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sigmoid, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, spiny, tapered, tapering, tined, toothed, two-horned, unbated