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long-horn
[long a.1 + horn n.]
1. A breed of beef cattle, orig. English, now common in the U.S., raised especially in the south-western states. Also attrib. and transf.
1834Youatt Cattle 188 The long horns seem to have first appeared in Craven. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S. Co. 130 The cows in the field used to be longhorns, much more hardy. 1901W. A. White in McClure's Mag. Dec. 145/2 The picture of Tom Platt..standing at the head of a drove of wild-eyed human long-horns, as if to keep them from a stampede. 1903A. Adams Log of Cowboy xxii. 353 There were lots of old long-horn cowmen living in the town. Ibid. 356 Some of those old long-horns didn't think any more of a twenty-dollar gold piece than I do of a white chip. 1949O. Nash Versus 24 The big dog is to her Like a scarlet rag to a Longhorn. 1955Sci. News Let. 22 Jan. 61/1 The longhorn first landed in this country when the animals were brought to America in 1521 by Gregorio Vallalobos, a governor-general sent to ‘New Spain’. 1972Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 6 May 20/3 Those are white-faced Herefords and black Angus... Don't see many longhorns anymore. 1974Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 28 July 18 (caption) Longhorn Bull Hillpatrick at Cotswold Farm Park, near Cheltenham: a survivor from the Stone Age?
2. long-horn(ed) beetle = longicorn n.
1840J. & M. Loudon tr. Köllar's Treat. Insects 15 The family of the long-horned beetles, (Cerambycidæ). 1894Insect Life VI. 219 A Cerambycid or long-horned beetle; in pods of Enterolobium from Paraguay. 1936Forestry X. 49 Longhorn beetles—Cerambycidae..are large, conspicuous, and easily recognized by their long horns or antennae. 1966A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 5 Longhorn beetle. Black and grey beetle about 1 in. long which sometimes attacks the softwoods used in buildings. 1968R. D. Martin tr. Wickler's Mimicry in Plants & Animals viii. 86 The long-horned beetle Erythrus rotundicollis also resembles the same bug.
3. The long-eared owl, Asio otus.
1856Yarrell Brit. Birds I. 131 Otus vulgaris, the Long-horn.
4. long-horn(ed) grasshopper, a grasshopper of the family Tettigoniidæ (formerly called Locustidæ), having very long antennæ.
1893Insect Life V. 271 The large Locustidæ, or long⁓horn grasshoppers, are very appropriately called ‘cradlers’ from the resemblance of the ovipositor of the female to a grain cradle. 1920W. J. Lucas Monogr. Brit. Orthoptera 5 Locustodea (Long-horned Grasshoppers). 1972L. E. Chadwick tr. Linsenmaier's Insects of World 80/2 In contrast with ordinary grasshoppers, most of which live on the ground, the long-horned grasshoppers do more climbing. 1972Swan & Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 74 The tettigoniids, or longhorn grasshoppers, may be distinguished from the acridids, or grasshoppers, by their long filamentous antennae. |