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bicornate

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bi⋅corn

[bahy-kawrn]
–adjective Also, bi⋅cor⋅nate [bahy-kawr-nit, -neyt] , bi⋅cor⋅nu⋅ate [bahy-kawr-nyoo-it, -eyt] , bi⋅cor⋅nu⋅ous.
1. Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
2. shaped like a crescent.
–noun
3. bicorne.

Origin:
1745–55; < L bicornis, equiv. to bi- bi- 1 + corn(ū) horn + -is adj. suffix
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