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The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.
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superl.
Hard; callous.
n. pl.
A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.
a.
Partially horny.
n.
Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.
superl.
Having horns or hornlike projections.
a.
Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
n.
One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers.
a.
Situated under a horny part or layer.
a.
Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
n.
The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
n.
One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.
a.
Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.
n.
A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.
n.
Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.
n.
Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.
n.
Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.
superl.
Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn.
n.
The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.
n. pl.
A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.
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