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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Made of horn or a hornlike substance; horny.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Horny; like horn; consisting of a horny substance, or a substance resembling horn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Containing a horny substance; horny.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin corneus, from cornū, horn; see ker- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • WildBirdontheFly asked for Twittered bird-related poems that included the word "corneous" I thought of the bark of this tree and the White-headed Woodpeckers I saw there.

    Liza Lee Miller 2009

  • The endosperm is usually white and floury as in normal maize, but in some types the outer portion is hard and corneous, as in popcorn.

    7. Sorghum 1996

  • As with popcorn, the best popping types usually have small grains with a dense, "glassy" (corneous) endosperm that traps steam until the pressure builds to explosive levels.

    10. Sorghum: Specialty Types 1996

  • Ossicula: small corneous pieces that serve in the articulation of the wings to the thorax.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Peritreme: the corneous selerite surrounding a spiracle.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • The winter wheats are, as a rule, more soft and starchy than the spring wheats, which are usually corneous or flinty to different degrees.

    Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

  • Omia: the shoulders: the lateral anterior angles of an agglutinated thorax, when they are distinct: = see umbone: in Coleoptera; a corneous sclerite to which the muscles of the anterior coxa are attached; also the lateral margin of the prothorax; also the lateral margin of the scutellum in Carabids and Dytiscids.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Harpes: the lateral pieces of the male genitalia in Lepidoptera, used as clasping organs: also applied to the corneous hooks often borne by these lateral pieces, which are then termed valves; see clasper: in culicids an articulated process, sometimes jointed, at the base of inner side of side-piece, below and exterior to the harpagones.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Episternites: the upper pair of corneous appendages forming the ovipositor in grasshoppers.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Armature: applied to the spinous or chitinous processes on the legs, body or wings; or the corneous parts of genitalic structures.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

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