Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The unicorn throne in Denmark. A unicorn horn, also known as an alicorn, [1] is a legendary object whose reality was accepted in Europe and Asia from the earliest recorded times. This "horn" comes from the creature known as a unicorn, also known in the Hebrew Bible as a re'em or wild ox. [2] Many healing powers and antidotal virtues were ...
See text. Proboscidea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae, some of whose species are known as devil's claw, devil's horn, ram's horn, or unicorn plant. The plants produce long, hooked seed pods. The hooks catch on the feet of animals, and as the animals walk, the pods are ground or crushed open, dispersing the seeds.
Common names it shares with other Proboscidea species include devil's claw and unicorn-plant. [4] Names more specific to the species include common devil's claw , ram's horn , [ 5 ] aphid trap , [ 4 ] Louisiana unicorn-plant , [ 1 ] purple-flowered devil's-claw , [ 6 ] goat's head , elephant tusks , [ 2 ] and martinoe (or martina).
The best known Elasmotherium species, E. sibiricum, sometimes called the Siberian unicorn, [4] was the size of a mammoth and is often conjectured to have borne a single very large horn. However, no horn has ever been found, and other authors have conjectured that the horn was likely much smaller. Like all rhinoceroses, elasmotheres were ...
Cutaneous horns, also known by the Latin name cornu cutaneum, are unusual keratinous skin tumors with the appearance of horns, or sometimes of wood or coral. Formally, this is a clinical diagnosis for a "conical projection above the surface of the skin." [1] They are usually small and localized but can, in very rare cases, be much larger.
Dung, Giao, Chinh, Tuoc, Arctander & MacKinnon, 1993. Range in Vietnam and Laos. The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), also called spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or infrequently, Vu Quang bovid, is one of the world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine native to the Annamite Range in Vietnam and Laos.
Pseudovates azteca Kirby, 1904. Pseudovates maya Saussure & Zehntner, 1894. Phyllovates chlorophaea nymphs. Pseudovates chlorophaea, [ 1] with the common name Texas unicorn mantis, is a species of praying mantis in the family Mantidae. It is native to the southern United States, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.
The scimitar oryx is a straight-horned antelope that stands just over 1 m (3.3 ft) at the shoulder. The males weigh 140–210 kg (310–460 lb) and the females 91–140 kg (201–309 lb). [10] The body measures 140–240 cm (55–94 in) from the head to the base of the tail.