cornute

present singular third person cornutes · participle present cornuting · participle past cornuted · past cornuted

1. transitiveTo give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.

   ‘Will you cooperate with me in cornuting your husband? It's a must!’

   1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 357

1. not comparableBearing horns or shaped like a horn; cornuted.

plural cornutes

1. A member of the order Cornuta.

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   Stylophorans are divided into two orders the Cornuta and Ankyroida: cornutes have asymmetrical thecae, aulacophores with stylocones and cover plates over the food groove that open widely; ankyroids have essentially bilaterally symmetrical thecae, aulacophores with styloids and in most the cover plates do not open widely.

   1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 225