It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing.
Defn: Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.
These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales.
Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc.
Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.
Defn: Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.
Defn: An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers.
A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish.
It has a large hollow hornlike process on the bill.
Defn: The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion.
Defn: Having four horns, orhornlike organs; as, a quadricornous beetle.
It has a hornlike organ projecting forward from each pectoral fin.
Defn: The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.
American aroid herb (Symplocarpus foetidus) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves.
A hornliketuft of feathers on the head of some birds.
The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.
An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers.
They were herbivorous, and remarkable for three pairs of hornlike protuberances on the skull.
Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.
If the fascia or bone has become gangrenous, the dead portion must be removed with the hornlike skin.
The hornlike slough may thus involve the superficial part of the skin only, or the whole thickness of the skin, and even of some of the structures beneath.
If a sitfast has developed, the dead hornlike slough must be carefully dissected out and the wound treated carefully with antiseptics.
It is very common near low-water mark, where it may be seen crawling over the rocks on its broad foot, from which project two hornlike appendages in front and two narrow tails behind.
The flowers are rendered conspicuous by their large yellow petals, which, however, last only for a day, and are succeeded by the hornlike seed-pods that sometimes reach a foot in length.
Curculionidae, sexual difference in length of snout in some; hornlike processes in male; musical.
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