stag-hornn.

Forms: Also stag's horn.

Etymology: stag n.¹

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a. In plural. The horns of a stag.

b. In singular. The horn of a stag, as a material.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bone or horn > [noun] > horn > types of

unicorna1533

devil's horn1583

ram's horn1611

greenhorn1725

buffalo-horn1783

stag-horn1815

buck-horn1820

deer-horn1843

devil horn1854

antler1872

rhino horn1889

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 356 In case Stags Horns cannot be procured for the preparation.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 499 Stag's horn and ivory are nearly the same as bone.

1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 121 When short pieces of stag-horn are used entire, as for the handles of table-knives, the hollow cellular part is concealed.

1864 J. Hunt tr. C. Vogt Lect. on Man x. 263 When the articles became scarce they provided themselves with worked staghorns.

attributive.1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stag-horn cutter, a worker up of deer horn for knife handles, etc.

c. transferred in plural. The bare upper branches of a tree. nonce-use. Cf. stag-headed adj. 2.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > tree-top

cropa1300

heada1387

tree-crop14..

tree-copc1425

treetop1530

crownet1578

crown1589

coma1870

stag-horn1879

1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 172 That tree art thou!..Thy stag-horns fright the sky, thy snake-roots sting the turf!

2. In the names of plants.

a. The American or Virginian sumac, Rhus typhina. More fully stag('s) horn tree, sumac.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun]

buck's-horna1450

rhus?1541

sumac1548

Venice sumac1597

poisonwood1671

poison tree1676

swamp sumac1722

urushi1727

stag-horn1753

Venetian sumac1755

poison ash1757

ipoh1779

poison sumac1785

ailanthus tree1789

Japan varnish1789

vinegar-plant1797

mountain sumac1813

poison dogwood1814

upas1814

karee1815

fustet1821

taaibos1821

poison elder1822

varnish sumac1822

Japan lacquer1835

tree of heaven1845

anacard1847

smoke plant1856

tanners' sumac1858

swamp dogwood1859

smoke-tree1860

wax-tree1866

wig-sumac1867

wig-tree1867

burnwood1874

vinegar-tree1874

mountain manchineel1884

valley of death tree1888

sugar-bush1900

smoke bush1902

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Stag's horn-tree, a name sometimes given to the rhus, or sumach.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 228/1 The young branches [of the Virginian sumach] are covered with a soft velvet-like down,..from whence the common people have given it the appellation of stag's horn.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 201 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Stag-horn sumach (Rhus typhina).

1882 Garden 19 Aug. 163/3 The Stag's-horn Sumach..has a very singular appearance just as the flower-spikes become prominent.

b. A kind of moss, esp. Lycopodium clavatum. More fully stag's horn (also staghorn) moss.

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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > club-moss or moss-like ferns

dwarf cypress1548

heath-cypress1551

pine1551

wolf's-claw1578

club-moss1597

wolf-claw1597

wolf's-foot1597

tree-moss1611

Selagoa1627

cypress-moss1640

mountain moss1688

lycopodium1706

stag's horn (also staghorn) moss1741

walking fern1814

tod-tails1820

Robin Hood's hatband1828

resurrection plant1841

ground-pine1847

forks and knives1853

fir club-moss1855

lycopod1861

Selaginella1865

foxtail1866

stag-head or stag's head moss1869

fir-moss1879

hog-bed1900

1741 J. J. Dillenius Hist. Muscorum 310 Hypnum cupressi, forme vulgare, foliis obtusis. The blunt Cypress-like Hypnum... Hisque notus est nomine Stags-Horn Moss.

1800 W. Wordsworth Idle Shepherd-boys 19 Or with that plant which in our dale We call stag-horn, or fox's tail, Their rusty hats they trim.

1844 E. Newman Hist. Brit. Ferns 353 The Common Club-moss, Wolf's-claw, or Stag's-horn, is the only species of Lycopodium that can be spoken of as abundant in Britain.

1855 M. Arnold Tristram & Iseult iii. 24 Their little hands Are busy gathering..streams Of stagshorn for their hats.

1882 Good Words 23 165 Staghorn Moss.

c. A fern of the genus Platycerium. (In full staghorn fern.)

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the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns

mountain parsley1578

female fern1597

rock parsley1597

spleenwort1597

marsh fern1686

prickly fern1764

parsley fern1777

sensitive fern1780

lady fern1783

stone-brake1796

mountain fern1800

rock brake1802

walking leaf1811

todea1813

shield-fern1814

Woodsia1815

mangemange1817

cinnamon fern1818

climbing fern1818

bladder-fern1828

king fern1829

filmy fern1830

ostrich fern1833

New York fern1843

mokimoki1844

rhizocarp1852

film-fern1855

nardoo1860

gymnogram1861

holly-fern1861

limestone-polypody1861

elk-horn1865

Gleichenia1865

lizard's herb1866

cliff brake1867

kidney fern1867

Christmas fern1873

Prince of Wales feathers1873

Christmas shield fern1878

buckler-fern1882

crape-fern1882

stag-horn1882

ladder fern1884

oleander fern1884

stag fern1884

resam1889

lip-fern1890

coral-fern1898

bamboo fern1930

pteroid1949

fern-gale-

1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants 390 Staghorn Fern is represented by several species of Platycerium.

1893 R. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker II. 32 It was covered with a wonderful growth of ferns, birdsnests, and staghorns, with branching, antler-like fronds.

d. (See quot. 1884.)

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1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 122 Stag's-horn Saxifrage, Saxifraga ceratophylla.

a. In the names of insects, etc. (See quots.)

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1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxi. 225 The stag~horn capricorn beetle (Prionus cervicornis, F.) in America.

1884 R. Rathbun in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 841 Among the true stony corals are the Stag-horn Corals (Madrepora cervicornis, prolifera, and palmata).

1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. VI. 72 A curious representative from the Malay Archipelago, known as the staghorn-fly (Elaphomyia), takes its name from the development of the sides of the head into large branching horns.

b. stag horn coral n. (also stag's horn coral) a branching coral of the genus Acropora.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > member of genus Acropora

stag horn coral1884

1785 in G. M. Millar New Syst. Nat. Hist. iv. ii. 286 The coral plants..sometimes shoot out like trees without leaves in winter;..sometimes they are found to resemble..the antlers of a stag, with great exactness and regularity.]

1884 R. Rathbun in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I v. 841 Among the true stony corals are the Stag-horn Corals..and many others.

1928 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas vii. pl. 59 (caption) Stag's Horn Coral.

1977 G. Durrell Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons v. 123 The predominant coral was Stag's horn,..like a great graveyard of all the finest Victorian deer trophies, decked out in white and electric blue.

4. Nautical. (See quot. 1961.)

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > cleat or bollard

kevelc1330

cleat1377

bollard1844

belaying-cleat1862

thumb-cleat1867

stag-horn1923

niggerhead1927

1923 Man. Seamanship (Admiralty) II. 87 The 15-in. cordite whips..are either taken to the motor..or to the special staghorn for lowering.

1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 196 Staghorn, a metal bollard with two horizontal arms.

5. Pathology. Used attributively to designate a large calculus of the kidney having the branched form of the renal pelvis that it occupies.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [adjective] > disorders of kidneys > calculi

nephrolithic1842

stag-horn1910

1910 Lippincott's New Med. Dict. 924/1 Stag-horn calculus.

1926 H. H. Young & D. M. Davis Young's Pract. Urol. I. vi. 377 In some extreme cases the kidney is only a thin sheet of dense scar tissue in which no trace of tubules or glomeruli can be found, overlying a large stag-horn calculus.

1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. xvii. 441 (caption) The large staghorn calculus is a cast of the renal pelvis and of renal calyces.

1974 J. D. Maynard in R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery viii. 161 Renal calculi may be entirely symptomless, particularly the very large staghorn type filling most of the pelvicalyceal system.

Derivatives

stag-horned adj. (a) Epithet of a beetle (cf. 3). (b) = stag-headed adj. 2.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adjective] > of or relating to tree-tops > having particular type of tree-top

high-headed1562

low-headed1738

stag-headed1770

mushroom-headed1832

stag-horned1853

heavy-headed1886

stagged1891

1853 C. G. F. Gore Dean's Daughter III. i. 6 The oldest of the trees;—its branches, staghorned at the summit.

1867 R. S. Hawker Prose Wks. (1893) 127 A solemn grove of stag~horned trees.

1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. Pl. 59 The Stag-horned Longicorn (Acanthophorus serraticornis).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	stag-horn
释义	stag-hornn. Forms: Also stag's horn. Etymology: stag n.¹ 1. Thesaurus » Categories » a. In plural. The horns of a stag. b. In singular. The horn of a stag, as a material. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bone or horn > [noun] > horn > types of unicorna1533 devil's horn1583 ram's horn1611 greenhorn1725 buffalo-horn1783 stag-horn1815 buck-horn1820 deer-horn1843 devil horn1854 antler1872 rhino horn1889 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 356 In case Stags Horns cannot be procured for the preparation. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 499 Stag's horn and ivory are nearly the same as bone. 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 121 When short pieces of stag-horn are used entire, as for the handles of table-knives, the hollow cellular part is concealed. 1864 J. Hunt tr. C. Vogt Lect. on Man x. 263 When the articles became scarce they provided themselves with worked staghorns. attributive.1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stag-horn cutter, a worker up of deer horn for knife handles, etc. c. transferred in plural. The bare upper branches of a tree. nonce-use. Cf. stag-headed adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > tree-top cropa1300 heada1387 tree-crop14.. tree-copc1425 treetop1530 crownet1578 crown1589 coma1870 stag-horn1879 1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 172 That tree art thou!..Thy stag-horns fright the sky, thy snake-roots sting the turf! 2. In the names of plants. a. The American or Virginian sumac, Rhus typhina. More fully stag('s) horn tree, sumac. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun] buck's-horna1450 rhus?1541 sumac1548 Venice sumac1597 poisonwood1671 poison tree1676 swamp sumac1722 urushi1727 stag-horn1753 Venetian sumac1755 poison ash1757 ipoh1779 poison sumac1785 ailanthus tree1789 Japan varnish1789 vinegar-plant1797 mountain sumac1813 poison dogwood1814 upas1814 karee1815 fustet1821 taaibos1821 poison elder1822 varnish sumac1822 Japan lacquer1835 tree of heaven1845 anacard1847 smoke plant1856 tanners' sumac1858 swamp dogwood1859 smoke-tree1860 wax-tree1866 wig-sumac1867 wig-tree1867 burnwood1874 vinegar-tree1874 mountain manchineel1884 valley of death tree1888 sugar-bush1900 smoke bush1902 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Stag's horn-tree, a name sometimes given to the rhus, or sumach. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 228/1 The young branches [of the Virginian sumach] are covered with a soft velvet-like down,..from whence the common people have given it the appellation of stag's horn. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 201 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Stag-horn sumach (Rhus typhina). 1882 Garden 19 Aug. 163/3 The Stag's-horn Sumach..has a very singular appearance just as the flower-spikes become prominent. b. A kind of moss, esp. Lycopodium clavatum. More fully stag's horn (also staghorn) moss. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > club-moss or moss-like ferns dwarf cypress1548 heath-cypress1551 pine1551 wolf's-claw1578 club-moss1597 wolf-claw1597 wolf's-foot1597 tree-moss1611 Selagoa1627 cypress-moss1640 mountain moss1688 lycopodium1706 stag's horn (also staghorn) moss1741 walking fern1814 tod-tails1820 Robin Hood's hatband1828 resurrection plant1841 ground-pine1847 forks and knives1853 fir club-moss1855 lycopod1861 Selaginella1865 foxtail1866 stag-head or stag's head moss1869 fir-moss1879 hog-bed1900 1741 J. J. Dillenius Hist. Muscorum 310 Hypnum cupressi, forme vulgare, foliis obtusis. The blunt Cypress-like Hypnum... Hisque notus est nomine Stags-Horn Moss. 1800 W. Wordsworth Idle Shepherd-boys 19 Or with that plant which in our dale We call stag-horn, or fox's tail, Their rusty hats they trim. 1844 E. Newman Hist. Brit. Ferns 353 The Common Club-moss, Wolf's-claw, or Stag's-horn, is the only species of Lycopodium that can be spoken of as abundant in Britain. 1855 M. Arnold Tristram & Iseult iii. 24 Their little hands Are busy gathering..streams Of stagshorn for their hats. 1882 Good Words 23 165 Staghorn Moss. c. A fern of the genus Platycerium. (In full staghorn fern.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns mountain parsley1578 female fern1597 rock parsley1597 spleenwort1597 marsh fern1686 prickly fern1764 parsley fern1777 sensitive fern1780 lady fern1783 stone-brake1796 mountain fern1800 rock brake1802 walking leaf1811 todea1813 shield-fern1814 Woodsia1815 mangemange1817 cinnamon fern1818 climbing fern1818 bladder-fern1828 king fern1829 filmy fern1830 ostrich fern1833 New York fern1843 mokimoki1844 rhizocarp1852 film-fern1855 nardoo1860 gymnogram1861 holly-fern1861 limestone-polypody1861 elk-horn1865 Gleichenia1865 lizard's herb1866 cliff brake1867 kidney fern1867 Christmas fern1873 Prince of Wales feathers1873 Christmas shield fern1878 buckler-fern1882 crape-fern1882 stag-horn1882 ladder fern1884 oleander fern1884 stag fern1884 resam1889 lip-fern1890 coral-fern1898 bamboo fern1930 pteroid1949 fern-gale- 1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants 390 Staghorn Fern is represented by several species of Platycerium. 1893 R. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker II. 32 It was covered with a wonderful growth of ferns, birdsnests, and staghorns, with branching, antler-like fronds. d. (See quot. 1884.) ΚΠ 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 122 Stag's-horn Saxifrage, Saxifraga ceratophylla. 3. a. In the names of insects, etc. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxi. 225 The stag~horn capricorn beetle (Prionus cervicornis, F.) in America. 1884 R. Rathbun in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 841 Among the true stony corals are the Stag-horn Corals (Madrepora cervicornis, prolifera, and palmata). 1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. VI. 72 A curious representative from the Malay Archipelago, known as the staghorn-fly (Elaphomyia), takes its name from the development of the sides of the head into large branching horns. b. stag horn coral n. (also stag's horn coral) a branching coral of the genus Acropora. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > member of genus Acropora stag horn coral1884 1785 in G. M. Millar New Syst. Nat. Hist. iv. ii. 286 The coral plants..sometimes shoot out like trees without leaves in winter;..sometimes they are found to resemble..the antlers of a stag, with great exactness and regularity.] 1884 R. Rathbun in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I v. 841 Among the true stony corals are the Stag-horn Corals..and many others. 1928 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas vii. pl. 59 (caption) Stag's Horn Coral. 1977 G. Durrell Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons v. 123 The predominant coral was Stag's horn,..like a great graveyard of all the finest Victorian deer trophies, decked out in white and electric blue. 4. Nautical. (See quot. 1961.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > cleat or bollard kevelc1330 cleat1377 bollard1844 belaying-cleat1862 thumb-cleat1867 stag-horn1923 niggerhead1927 1923 Man. Seamanship (Admiralty) II. 87 The 15-in. cordite whips..are either taken to the motor..or to the special staghorn for lowering. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 196 Staghorn, a metal bollard with two horizontal arms. 5. Pathology. Used attributively to designate a large calculus of the kidney having the branched form of the renal pelvis that it occupies. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [adjective] > disorders of kidneys > calculi nephrolithic1842 stag-horn1910 1910 Lippincott's New Med. Dict. 924/1 Stag-horn calculus. 1926 H. H. Young & D. M. Davis Young's Pract. Urol. I. vi. 377 In some extreme cases the kidney is only a thin sheet of dense scar tissue in which no trace of tubules or glomeruli can be found, overlying a large stag-horn calculus. 1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. xvii. 441 (caption) The large staghorn calculus is a cast of the renal pelvis and of renal calyces. 1974 J. D. Maynard in R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery viii. 161 Renal calculi may be entirely symptomless, particularly the very large staghorn type filling most of the pelvicalyceal system. Derivatives stag-horned adj. (a) Epithet of a beetle (cf. 3). (b) = stag-headed adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adjective] > of or relating to tree-tops > having particular type of tree-top high-headed1562 low-headed1738 stag-headed1770 mushroom-headed1832 stag-horned1853 heavy-headed1886 stagged1891 1853 C. G. F. Gore Dean's Daughter III. i. 6 The oldest of the trees;—its branches, staghorned at the summit. 1867 R. S. Hawker Prose Wks. (1893) 127 A solemn grove of stag~horned trees. 1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. Pl. 59 The Stag-horned Longicorn (Acanthophorus serraticornis). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1663
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