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- adjective of an animal having
three horns
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Examples
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The plant-eating dinosaurs are closely related to the three-horned triceratops, but one of them has five times as many horns on its head.
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The plant-eating dinosaurs are closely related to the three-horned triceratops, but one of them has five times as many horns on its head.
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Five of these endemic species are chameleons, including the Rwenzori three-horned chameleon (Chamaeleo johnstoni), which looks like a miniature Triceratops and can grow to a length of 30 centimeters.
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The skeleton, Triceratops horridus a three-horned giant dinosaur was found in 2004 by a rancher in the United States in North Dakota.
Archive 2008-04-01 Thatsnews 2008
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The nearly complete skull of a baby Triceratops – a three-horned, tank-like dinosaur from the Cretaceous – is now giving paleontologists insights into how these creatures grew.
March 6th, 2006 2006
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Others have told of a three-horned monster like that shown above, with ferocious teeth and a massive comb.
A pre-rhetorical question? mrdantefontana 2006
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Or how about the skull of a triceratops, a three-horned herbivore that weighed 7 tons?
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The promontory was a vast, high meadow flanked by jutting cliffs and broken steeps that narrowed, closing in as the elevation rose toward the level crest that was a jutting shoulder of great Cioudseeker, which stood in the distance behind like a gigantic, three-horned head draped in a sloping cowl.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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The promontory was a vast, high meadow flanked by jutting cliffs and broken steeps that narrowed, closing in as the elevation rose toward the level crest that was a jutting shoulder of great Cioudseeker, which stood in the distance behind like a gigantic, three-horned head draped in a sloping cowl.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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It was a zaragoat, a three-horned domesticated ungulate.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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