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Pronghorn :: Pronghorn (n.) An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope..

Turritella :: Turritella (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..

Corneocalcareous :: Corneocalcareous (a.) Horny on one side and calcareous on the other.

Spinosity :: Spinose (a.) Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

Sponge :: Sponge (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..

Horny :: Horny (superl.) Having horns or hornlike projections.

Scute :: Scute (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..

Willow-thorn :: Willow-thorn (n.) A thorny European shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) resembling a willow.

Gooseberry :: Gooseberry (a.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated..

Paragnathus :: Paragnathus (n.) One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids..

Hardbeam :: Hardbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam..

Aspalathus :: Aspalathus (n.) A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil.

Kerasine :: Kerasine (a.) Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

Henna :: Henna (n.) A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc..

Chaparral :: Chaparral (n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.

Coleoptera :: Coleoptera (n. pl.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils..

Squamate :: Squamata (n. pl.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins..

Corallum :: Corallum (n.) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral..

Sea Purse :: Sea purse () The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks..

Braky :: Braky (a.) Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny..

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