Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being destitute of horns.
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- noun Absence of
horns .
Etymologies
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hornless + -ness
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Similarly, with regard to cattle where it has been found that hornlessness is dominant or nearly so in both sexes, no reference is made to the opposite fact that wild cattle have horns in both sexes and are not dimorphic in this character.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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