nasicornous

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nasicornous (not comparable)

(zoology, rare) Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros does.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of Unicornes hornes”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 166:
  [S]ome Unicornes wee will allow even among inſects, as thoſe foure kinds of naſicornous Beetles described by Muffetus.