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Cornu

noun
(pl. cornua)
1.
(anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape.





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"Cornu" Quotes from Famous Books



... telegram yesterday evening from Madame Cornu containing these words: "Come to me, urgent business." I therefore hurried to her today, ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
... with his melancholy companion would commonly end a tiresome day at Batifol's school. Amedee was now in the "seventh," and knew already that the phrase, "the will of God," could not be turned into Latin by 'bonitas divina', and that the word 'cornu' was not declinable. These long, silent hours spent at his school-desk, or beside a person absorbed in grief, might have become fatal to the child's disposition, had it not been for his good friends, the Gerards. He went to see them ...
— A Romance of Youth, Complete • Francois Coppee
... of the equator, than the same rays became perceptibly "notched." The telluric lines, meanwhile, remained unaffected, so as to be "virtually mapped" by the process.[633] This rapid and unfailing mode of distinction was used by Cornu with perfect ease during his investigation of atmospheric absorption near Loiret in August and ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... tibi copia Manabit ad plenum, benigno Ruris honorum opulenta cornu. HOR. Od. xvii. ...
— The Coverley Papers • Various


Words linked to "Cornu" :   structure, body structure, complex body part, anatomical structure, general anatomy, anatomy, bodily structure


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