Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornlet
Literary usage of Hornlet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Fresh-water Algae, Exclusive of Desmidieae and Diatomaceae by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1882)
"The papilla which becomes the hornlet soon elongates into a short cylindrical
slender branch, which at first rises perpendicularly from the tube, ..."
2. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1877)
"... Who'll visit my hornlet, And spill my ink. He will then bend down,* To visit
my pax, And he'll touch my hornlet, And will leave it empty. ..."
3. Flora Indica, Or, Descriptions of Indian Plants by William Roxburgh (1832)
"Stigma funnel-shaped, ciliate, lodged just under the apex of the hornlet of the
anther. This famous plant is too well known to require any further ..."
4. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1905)
"Another roughening of a similar character, though not so pronounced, marks the
summit of each hornlet, and there is an entire absence of any vascular ..."
5. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... across the crown a broad band of black, continued into the hornlet on each
side of the hinder crown ; throat pale sulphur-yellow ; nasal plumes, lores, ..."
6. Odorographia: A Natural History of Raw Materials and Drugs Used in the by John Charles Sawer (1894)
"From the mouth of the tube of the corolla, opposite to its interior border, on
each side of its insertion, is a small hornlet. ..."
7. Mammalia: Their Various Orders and Habits Popularly Illustrated by Typical by Louis Figuier, Guillaume Louis Figuier (1870)
"... Gardens was roughly broken off on one occasion, and the blood flowed very
profusely : but another hornlet has since been developed in its place, ..."
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