longhorn

Any of a breed of cattle with long horns and a brown and white coat, developed in England for meat and milk and now rare.

A Texas Longhorn.

A variety of Cheddar cheese molded into a long cylinder.

A tineid moth of the family Adelidæ, as Adela viridella, having very long antennæ.

A dipterous insect of the suborder Nemocera, such as tipularians or crane-flies.

A beetle of the group Longicornia; a longicorn.

An English breed of cattle with long, drooping horns. They are large and rather clumsily built, but are good beef cattle and fair milkers. In the United States the name is also applied to the long-horned Texas cattle, now almost entirely replaced by breeds with shorter horns.

An old inhabitant, shrewd and knowing.

A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See long-horned.