horny

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The researchers conclude that the creature’s horny helmet was a powerful buttress for jousting with other males, they report today in Science.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2022

In the study of sponge evolution, horny sponges are notoriously challenging.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2021

“Even people who don’t like lizards love horny toads,” Rains said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2021

Indeed, the university rescinded admission offers for at least 10 prospective students in 2017 over offensive comments they had made in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens”.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2019

The golden monkey was holding out his little black hand, and Ama’s butterfly dæmon was fluttering closer and closer until he settled on a horny forefinger.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman