unicorned

unicorned

1. simple past and past participle of unicorn

unicorned (not comparable)

1. Having a single horn.
   • 1868, Hugh Falconer, Charles Murchison, Palæontological Memoirs and Notes of the Late Hugh Falconer:

     To the second series belong the unicorned and bicorned species of Asia.

   • 1938, Life and Letters To-day - Volume 20, page 35:

     Doctor Shepard related in his book that unicorned sheep exist in Nepal and on occasion are even sent to Europe.

   • 2012, Clint Marsh, Varla Ventura, Unicornicopia:

     Here may be the explanation of the one-horned cows and bulls that Aelian says were to be found in Ethiopia and of the unicorned cattle reported by Pliny as living in the land of the Moors.

   • 2014, Chris Lavers, The Natural History Of Unicorns:

     Clearly a unicorned animal could be produced by bending an animal's horns inwards as they grew and twisting them together, or, presumably, by removing one horn and manipulating the other.

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