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Meaning of "hornlessness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HORNLESSNESS

ˈhɔːnləsnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HORNLESSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hornlessness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HORNLESSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hornlessness in the English dictionary

The definition of hornlessness in the dictionary is the condition or state of being without horns.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HORNLESSNESS

airlessness · brainlessness · effortlessness · emotionlessness · endlessness · fabulousness · flawlessness · gainlessness · godlessness · harmlessness · heedlessness · jealousness · landlessness · meaninglessness · motionlessness · painlessness · spinelessness · statelessness · stonelessness · tonelessness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HORNLESSNESS

hornful · horngeld · hornier · horniest · hornily · horniness · hornish · hornist · hornito · hornless · hornlet · hornlike · hornpipe · hornpout · horns and halo effect · hornstone · hornswoggle · horntail · hornwork · hornworm

WORDS THAT END LIKE HORNLESSNESS

biliousness · business · callousness · carelessness · consciousness · deliciousness · deviousness · helplessness · hilariousness · homelessness · hopelessness · lawlessness · nervousness · obviousness · preciousness · restlessness · ridiculousness · righteousness · seriousness · unconsciousness · viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of hornlessness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hornlessness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HORNLESSNESS

Find out the translation of hornlessness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of hornlessness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hornlessness» in English.
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hornlessness
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hornlessness
570 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
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hornlessness
380 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
280 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
278 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
270 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
260 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
220 millions of speakers
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Tanpa keruan
190 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
180 millions of speakers
ja

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hornlessness
130 millions of speakers
ko

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hornlessness
85 millions of speakers
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Hornlessness
85 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
80 millions of speakers
ta

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hornlessness
75 millions of speakers
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कुरुप
75 millions of speakers
tr

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hornlessness
70 millions of speakers
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assenza di corna
65 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
50 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
40 millions of speakers
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hornlessness
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hornlessness
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hornlessness
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hornlessness
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hornlessness
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Trends of use of hornlessness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HORNLESSNESS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of hornlessness
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hornlessness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORNLESSNESS»

Discover the use of hornlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hornlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Bouquet of Archaeozoological Studies: Essays in Honour of ...
We can therefore conclude that hornlessness is a typical phenomenon of the Roman period that no longer occurred in the Middle Ages — at least not in the High and Late Middle Ages, and not on a scale that can be proven by archaeological ...
D. C. M. Raemaekers, E. Esser, Roel C. G M. Lauwerier, 2012
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Doklady: Biological sciences
The low frequency of this gene is reflected in the expected number of homozygous hornless animals shown in Table 2. It can be seen that two homozygotes for hornlessness cannot be expected simultaneously in any of the herds. Their total ...
Akademii͡a︡ nauk SSSR., 1984
3
Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
The switch between hornlessness and horn production occurs at about 5.O mm ( trianglel, (b) Switchpoint-indicator plot. Residuals are measured as shown in figure 5.22 (top). The range of deviations from the mean is much greater near the  ...
Mary Jane West-Eberhard, 2003
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Goat Husbandry
David Mackenzie. Fig. 16 Hornlessness and the intersex condition (b) Safe matings. Fig. 16 Hornlessness and the intersex condition (c) Risky matings.
David Mackenzie, 2011
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Domestication: The Decline of Environmental Appreciation
The extremes are represented by the giant horns of some East African cattle and by hornlessness. Hornlessness is also one of the possibilities in sheep and goats . In addition to the flat spiral type, which is considered to be the original shape, ...
Helmut Hemmer, 1990
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A Perfect Harmony: The Intertwining Lives of Animals and ...
Another feature that came before our version of woolly and essentially white animals was hornlessness, a characteristic that goes back ninety- five hundred years at least. It was probably the result of an effort by man to evolve animals that were ...
Roger A. Caras, 2001
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The Outline of Science, Second Volume
Thus a short tail in cats is dominant (somewhat imperfectly) to the ordinary tail; the appearance of extra toes in poultry is dominant to the presence of the normal four toes ; hornlessness in cattle is dominant to the presence of horns. Among the  ...
J. Arthur Thomson, 2008
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ADVANCES IN GENETICS
Warwick and Dunkle (1939) have suggested that in order to be in line with later work Wood's data could well be interpreted as hornlessness being dominant in both sexes, dominance being incomplete in the male. In a study of horns in the ...
M. Demerec, 1956
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A History of British Livestock Husbandry, 1700-1900
A polled strain could be multiplied rapidly, hornlessness being a dominant characteristic? The 'black cattle' of the eighteenth century were, moreover, dual- purpose animals, giving both beef and milk; or, more properly, triple-purpose if their ...
Robert Trow-Smith, 2013
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The journal of heredity
Source of Data and Analysis A registered polled Rambouillet ram, TLD 590. purchased by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station for experiment in a study of the inheritance of hornlessness, proved to be homozygous for the dominant gene ...
‎1957

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HORNLESSNESS»

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Is Fatty Beef Good for You? New Study Says Yes
Many big companies are now asking the dairy industry to move toward breeding in hornlessness, and some even stating they will preferentially ... «Science Times, Mar 15»
2
Hornless cattle make case for gene editing and less restrictive …
Hornlessness is produced by insertion of genes from other cattle breeds that are naturally hornless. “We're talking about genes that already ... «Genetic Literacy Project, Sep 14»
3
Vanishing beetle horns have surprise function
The hornlessness of some adult beetles is therefore not the result of an inability to make horns, Moczek says, but the reshaping or reabsorption ... «EurekAlert, Dec 06»
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... how hard it was to write that last paragraph without making any cheap, salacious gags about humps, hornlessness or camel toes. As they ... «The Age, May 04»
REFERENCE
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