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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Horned \Horned\, adjective Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.
The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. --Coleridge.
{Horned bee} (Zo["o]l.), a British wild bee ({Osmia bicornis}), having two little horns on the head.
{Horned dace} (Zo["o]l.), an American cyprinoid fish ({Semotilus corporialis}) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of {Chub}.
{Horned frog} (Zo["o]l.), a very large Brazilian frog ({Ceratophrys cornuta}), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids.
{Horned grebe} (Zo["o]l.), a species of grebe ({Colymbus auritus}), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head.
{Horned horse} (Zo["o]l.), the gnu.
{Horned lark} (Zo["o]l.), the shore lark.
{Horned lizard} (Zo["o]l.), the horned toad.
{Horned owl} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout.
{Horned rattler} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), the sea devil.
{Horned screamer} (Zo["o]l.), the kamichi.
{Horned snake} (Zo["o]l.), the cerastes.
{Horned toad} (Zo["o]l.), 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}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Cerastes}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
horned
adjective: having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind; "horned viper"; "great horned owl"; "the unicorn--a mythical horned beast"; "long-horned cattle" [ant: {hornless}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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