| 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. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
Horned bee (Zool.), a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head. --
Horned dace (Zool.), an American cyprinoid fish (Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of Chub. --
Horned frog (Zool.), a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids. --
Horned grebe (Zool.), a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head. --
Horned horse (Zool.), the gnu. --
Horned lark (Zool.), the shore lark. --
Horned lizard (Zool.), the horned toad. --
Horned owl (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout. --
Horned rattler (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), the sea devil. --
Horned screamer (Zool.), the kamichi. --
Horned snake (Zool.), the cerastes. --
Horned toad (Zool.), 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. (Zool.) See Cerastes. [ 1913 Webster ]
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