Meaning

2 senses

  1. The horn of an elk.

  2. A highly-branched coral (Acropora palmata) supposed to resemble the horns of an elk.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Elkhorn corals are listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

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Origin

From elk + horn.

From elk + horn.

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Forms

plural: elkhorns
Singularelkhorn
Pluralelkhorns

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
elixirelkellipseellipsiselliptical

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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