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staghorn

[ stag-hawrn ]

noun

  1. a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.


adjective

  1. made of or decorated with staghorn:

    a knife with a staghorn handle.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of staghorn1

First recorded in 1655–65; stag + horn

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Example Sentences

Burns also wants to study a second staghorn-fern species that appears to grow in colonies.

Burns and his coworkers also analyzed the genes in 10 staghorn colonies on Lord Howe Island.

You see here the elk or staghorn fern, which grows as a parasite on the palm or the petosperum of New Zealand.

Among the captains was rather a fine-looking man, a Captain Staghorn, commanding the Daring frigate.

Still, I expected to see Captain Staghorn sitting upright, with his disagreeable companion by his side.

Staghorn sumach (Rhus hirta) is of a different species but of the same genus.

This is a sub-variety of the Staghorn Endive, and comparatively of recent introduction.

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