a. [f. L. corniger horn-bearing (f. cornū horn + -ger bearing) + -OUS.] Bearing or having horns, horned; producing horn or horny substance.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xix. 261. Nature in other cornigerous animals, hath placed the hornes higher.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 257. Sheep … being reckon’d amongst the cornigerous Quadrupeds.
1834. Good, Stud. Med. (ed. 4), IV. 465. Examples of the cornigerous variety [of fish-skin disease] … are by no means uncommon.
