well-horned
See also: well horned
English
Adjective
well-horned (comparative better-horned, superlative best-horned)
- Having large or fine horns or antlers.
- 1844, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Vol. XLVII, p. 131,
- The best horned cattle are those of Dalecarlia.
- 1923, Richard Goldschmidt, The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination, Translated by William Dakin, Methuen & Co., p. 153,
- In races of sheep where both sexes are equally well horned castration has no effect on the development of horns (the same thing applies in the analogous case of reindeer. […] ).
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 186,
- Bikehandles was a well-horned billy-goat.
- 2007, Virgil, Aeneid, translated by Frederick Ahl, Oxford University Press, Book 7, 483-5, p. 173,
- He was a handsome buck, well horned with a huge rack of antlers; / Tyrrhus’s boys had been feeding him since he’d been torn from his mother’s / Dugs.
- 2015, Jonathan Kingdon, The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals, Second Edition, Bloomsbury, p. 586,
- Piebald males often tolerate the presence of several other well-horned males in their vicinity but these can always be graded by colour and clearly represent hierarchically ordered age-classes.
- 1844, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Vol. XLVII, p. 131,
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