Definitions

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

  • noun Any of a breed of cattle with long horns and a brown and white coat, developed in England for meat and milk and now rare.
  • noun A Texas Longhorn.
  • noun A variety of Cheddar cheese molded into a long cylinder.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An English breed of cattle with long, drooping horns. They are large and rather clumsily built, but are good beef cattle and fair milkers. In the United States the name is also applied to the long-horned Texas cattle, now almost entirely replaced by breeds with shorter horns.
  • noun An old inhabitant, shrewd and knowing.
  • noun A tineid moth of the family Adelidæ, as Adela viridella, having very long antennæ.
  • noun A dipterous insect of the suborder Nemocera, such as tipularians or crane-flies.
  • noun A beetle of the group Longicornia; a longicorn.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See long-horned.
  • noun The Texas longhorn.

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

  • noun A breed of beef cattle, having long horns, bred in Texas and other parts of southwest United States.

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

  • noun long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States

Etymologies

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long +‎ horn

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Examples

  • Well, that, and perhaps that longhorn is already out of the barn?

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  • Well, that, and perhaps that longhorn is already out of the barn?

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  • April 17, the Clark Fork Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society hosts Revisiting Dicentra uniflora, an eight-mile roundtrip hike with ecologist Mike Young in search of this intriguing wildflower (aka the longhorn bleeding-heart), which starts at 10 AM at the Rattlesnake Trailhead.

    Missoula Independent editor@missoulanews.com 2010

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  • I recognize the bright turquoise vélo* with the caramel leather seat and wide longhorn handle-bars.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • And the "really good ones" were topped with longhorn cheddar, sliced thick, allowed to go to room temp and "sweat" as my dad called it, cooked on the charcoal grill and placed on an onion bun.

    Jalapeno cheese bun recipe for a proper Texas burger | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

  • I grew up eating pretty much plain burgers with nothing fancy on them: mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickle, maybe some longhorn cheese, NO ketchup (my mom says those are Yankee burgers LOL).

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  • I recognize the bright turquoise vélo* with the caramel leather seat and wide longhorn handle-bars.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • I recognize the bright turquoise vélo* with the caramel leather seat and wide longhorn handle-bars.

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