Corneous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corneous \Cor"ne*ous\ (-?s), a. [L. corneus, fr. cornu horn.]
     Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard. -- Sir T. Browne.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  corneous
       adj : made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) [syn: {hornlike},
              {horny}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "corneous":
     bony, cement, cemental, concrete, dense, diamondlike, dure,
     flintlike, flinty, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails,
     hardhearted, horny, iron-hard, ironlike, lapideous, lithoid,
     lithoidal, marble, marblelike, obdurate, osseous, resistant,
     resistive, rocklike, rocky, solid, steellike, steely, stonelike,
     stony, tough