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- adjective
Horn (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Horn's ..."
Etymologies
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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Horn.
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Examples
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The fish is the bony bream (_Chatoessus horni_), which abounds in the water-holes of the country.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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