What's the difference between hornless and thornless?
Hornless
Definition:
(a.) Having no horn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The weight of bruised tissue trimmed from the carcases of the cattle in the horned groups was significantly greater than that trimmed from the carcases of the cattle in the hornless groups.
(2) The autosomal dominant gene polled (P) causes hornlessness in goats.
(3) In each trial there were three groups of cattle, hornless, horned and mixed (some with hrons and some without).
(4) All cattle were hornless Bos indicus crossbreds from the same property in north Queensland.
(5) When horned and hornless cattle are mixed the hornless animals in the mixed group sustain significantly more bruising than animals in a group consisting soley of hornless animals while the horned animals in a mixed group have a similar degree of bruising to cattle in a group consisting solely of horned cattle.
(6) We speculate that the genotype and phenotype in our patient correspond to the genetic intersexuality of the hornless goat, thereby raising the possibility that the human autosome may play a role in the control of sexual development.
(7) Hornless cattle had significantly (P less than 0.05) less bruising than horned cattle when consigned as separate groups.
(8) Mean larval burdens were slightly greater in hornless than in horned sheep in Dorper-type than in Merino-type sheep, and in lambs than in sheep with 2 or more permanent incisors.
(9) However, this advantage was lost when hornless cattle were mixed with tipped or untipped animals.
(10) The Vikings' reputation was not helped by the 19th century confection that they had horns on their helmets (they didn't, they had conical, hornless helmets).