longhornn.
/ˈlɒŋhɔːn/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋˌ(h)ɔrn/, /ˈlɑŋˌ(h)ɔrn/ 1. Either of two breeds of long-horned beef cattle: a large breed developed in England, and a breed developed (from Iberian stock) in the south-western United States; an animal of such a breed.Cf. Texas longhorn n. at Texas n. Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > breeds of ox > [noun] > long-horn breeds
longhorn1770
Shropshire1803
coaster1890
Texas longhorn1908
1770 A. Young Six Months Tour N. Eng. III. xviii. 234 Their breed of horned cattle is the long horns, fat them from thirty to fifty stone.
1834 W. Youatt Cattle 188 The long horns seem to have first appeared in Craven.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 130 The cows in the field used to be longhorns, much more hardy.
1955 Sci. 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.
1974 Sunday Times 28 July (Colour Suppl.) 18 (caption) Longhorn Bull Hillpatrick at Cotswold Farm Park, near Cheltenham: a survivor from the Stone Age?
2010 Farmers Weekly 26 Mar. 40/3 Because it was difficult to feed the Longhorns at the barrier we introduced a ring feeder on the pad.
2. U.S. slang. A Texan. Also: an experienced or hardy cattle rancher or cowboy.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > specific state > states
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longhorn1876
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1876 Daily Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 10 June His brother, a regular long-horn from the ‘Lone Star’ state, appeared at the calaboose door.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xxii. 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.
1991 C. Eddy Stairway to Hell 117/2 A trio of tequila-guzzling longhaired longhorns..dance a Texas two-step on your kneecaps.
2006 ‘L. Burana’ Try xxiii. 278 All the way up I-25 since Mead, stupid longhorn shitass grinding on my bumper.
3. Short for longhorn beetle n. at Compounds.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > member of (long-horn beetle)
long-horned beetle1834
longicorn1849
longhorn beetle1879
longhorn1902
1902 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1900–02 6 751 Mr. P. B. Mason records..the capture in a Burton-on-Trent timber yard of these north American longhorns.
1988 T. R. New Assoc. betw. Insects & Plants ii. 23 Some of the longhorns are amongst the largest of all beetles.
2006 A. V. Evans & J. N. Hogue Field Guide Beetles Calif. 234 Longhorns are among the most spectacular of California's beetles.
4. (The popular name for) a type of biplane manufactured by the Farman Aviation Works and used by the French and British military as a reconnaissance and training aircraft during the First World War (1914–18).The aircraft was fitted with an elevator at the front, supported by two long outriggers, supposedly resembling the long horns of the breed of cattle of that name (see sense 1).
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with more than one wing either side > specific biplanes
tabloid1913
longhorn1914
pup1917
pursuit biplane1920
1914 Aeroplane 26 Mar. 391/1 Messrs. Gooden (Caudron), Verrier (‘shorthorn’ Maurice Farman), Noel (‘longhorn’ Maurice Farman)..all flew excellently.
1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station i. 36 The machines were of the ‘pusher’ type with interconnected front and rear elevators... Popularly they were known as ‘Longhorns’.
1996 L. Day & I. McNeil Biogr. Dict. Hist. Technol. 252/1 The ‘Longhorn’ and ‘Shorthorn’ became the standard training aircraft..during the early years of the First World War.
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longhorn beetle n. any of numerous beetles constituting the family Cerambycidae, characterized by very long antennae and having larvae that typically bore into wood; = sense 3.Formerly placed in groups Longicornia or Phytophaga, the longhorn beetles are now assigned to the superfamily Chrysomeloidea.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > member of (long-horn beetle)
long-horned beetle1834
longicorn1849
longhorn beetle1879
longhorn1902
1879 Midland Naturalist 2 232 The sallows close by yield a new Longhorn beetle, which it is a great pleasure to see, viz., Liopus nebulosus.
1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 5 Longhorn beetle. Black and grey beetle about 1 in. long which sometimes attacks the softwoods used in buildings.
2009 New Yorker 21 Dec. 97/1 Still strolled by, wearing a T-shirt with a giant longhorn beetle on it.
longhorn grasshopper n. = long-horned grasshopper n. at long-horned adj. Compounds.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Tettigoniidae > member of
katydid1784
tettigonian1842
longhorn grasshopper1893
koringkriek1913
tettigoniid1921
1893 Insect Life 5 271 The large Locustidæ, or long-horn grasshoppers, are very appropriately called ‘cradlers’.
1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 74 The tettigoniids, or longhorn grasshoppers, may be distinguished from the acridids, or grasshoppers, by their long filamentous antennae.
2004 D. J. Schmidly Mammals of Texas (rev. ed.) 133 The only other items regularly found were the remains of crickets and longhorn grasshoppers.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > genus Asio > asio otus (long-eared owl)
horned owla1393
longhorn owl1828
1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals 56 O. vulgaris. Long Horn-Owl.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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