Home Forum Dictionary Articles Tutorials Books Directory Share your work


Edit page | Page history | Printable version

Dictionary » H » Horned

Horned

Horned

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, 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 colour, 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.

(Science: botany) see Cerastes.


Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page



Results from our forum


Re: Horn/Bone

Goats (and some other horned animals) use their horns for heat regulation, (as they have capillaries that run throughout the horn) therefore if you cut off a goats horns will that prevent it from controlling its body heat?

See entire post
by tlj
Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:20 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Horn/Bone
Replies: 7
Views: 5355

Talk about INSECTZ or get outta here:)

When here spring will come and grass will be high and flowring (on the shot term...) it will be many long-horned beetls at the floweres.

See entire post
by Locus
Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:50 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Talk about INSECTZ or get outta here:)
Replies: 275
Views: 104026

Talk about INSECTZ or get outta here:)

well it's a longed horned beetle...

See entire post
by Bugz
Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:30 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Talk about INSECTZ or get outta here:)
Replies: 275
Views: 104026

The Fiber Disease

... some laying in the wound growing there.. or many!!! And the other type is the male, which I believe likes to do the digging in the wound with his horned head. So therefore the others must be the female which assume the long strand shape. 2) If you put on clothes.. since the female nematode is ...

See entire post
by Neva Borden
Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:13 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 4468553

Population genetics/ Community interaction question help

Hi there everyone, I'm having some trouble with this one question and was wondering if anyone would help. 9) A population of great horned owls (Bubo bubo) is a 160km2 area in central Alberta increased over a three-year period (1966-69) from ten to eighteen birds. The population of snowshoe ...

See entire post
by redfoxindigo
Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:43 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Population genetics/ Community interaction question help
Replies: 1
Views: 1541
View all matching forum results

This page was last modified 21:16, 3 October 2005. This page has been accessed 1,440 times. 
What links here | Related changes | Permanent link