HORNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horned mean? 

• HORNED (adjective)
  The adjective HORNED has 1 sense:

1. having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind

  Familiarity information: HORNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind

Context example:

long-horned cattle

Similar:

antlered (having antlers)

antler-like (resembling antlers)

bicorn; bicornate; bicorned; bicornuate; bicornuous (having two horns or horn-shaped parts)

hollow-horned (having horns that are hollow)

horny (having horns or hornlike projections)

Antonym:

hornless (having no horns)

 Context examples 

So was the black horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And his father had worked to the last fading gasp; the horned growth on his hands must have been half an inch thick when he died.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Any of various hollow-horned, bearded ruminant mammals of the genus Capra, originally of mountainous areas of the Old World, especially any of the domesticated forms of C. hircus, raised for wool, milk, and meat.

(Goat, NCI Thesaurus)