hornless

«hornless» in Mova's school dictionary: having no horns — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (hornless)

meaning for a pupil

Hornless means having no horns. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and farming, some cattle, goats and sheep are naturally hornless (often called «polled»), and some are bred that way for safety. In stories and myths, a hornless unicorn would be just a horse. Common phrases: «hornless cattle», «hornless goat», «a hornless breed».

examples

• Some breeds of cow are naturally hornless. tree →
• The farmer prefers hornless goats because they are safer. tree →
• A rhino whose horn has been cut off by rangers to protect it from poachers is left hornless for a while. tree →
• Female deer are usually hornless; we say they have no antlers. tree →
• The hornless sheep grazed quietly. tree →
• Polled cattle are hornless. tree →

note

Built from «horn» + «-less» (without). Farmers often say «polled» for hornless. Strictly, deer have antlers, not horns, so «antlerless» is the exact word for them.

In the corpora

• That was Paraceratherium, a hornless relative of rhinos that browsed on treetops in Asia, including China, about 30 million years ago.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hornless» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.