Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hollow-horned, as a ruminant; specifically, of or pertaining to the Cavicornia.
- noun A hollow-horned ruminant; specifically, one of the Cavicornia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having hollow horns.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having
hollow horns - noun zoology Any animal having hollow horns, but especially any
ruminant of the family Cavicornia
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Examples
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With regard to the second question, it is a matter of importance that although we have hitherto not discovered any Ruminants with this modification of the teeth, still less any cavicorn or sheath-horned
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Ruminants -- including the giraffes, the antler-bearing forms called deer, the cavicorn or sheath-horned bovines, ovines and caprines, and the large series of antelopes of Africa and India -- all have precisely this form of jaw, this number and shape and grouping of the teeth.
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