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Epithema :: Epithema (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

Horny :: Horny (superl.) Hard; callous.

Corneouss :: Corneouss (a.) Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.

Thorny :: Thorny (superl.) Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown..

Ceratospongiae :: Ceratospongiae (n. pl.) An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.

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

Rhamphotheca :: Rhamphotheca (n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds.

Sapan Wood :: Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood..

Cornified :: Cornified (a.) Converted into horn; horny.

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

Calamus :: Calamus (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

Subcostal :: Subcorneous (a.) Partially horny.

Scale :: Scale (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..

Briery :: Briery (a.) Full of briers; thorny.

Keratogenous :: Keratogenous (a.) Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse..

Fulcrum :: Fulcrum (n.) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.

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

Subcorneous :: Subcorneous (a.) Situated under a horny part or layer.

Chitin :: Chitin (n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin..

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..

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