staghorn

American  

[stag-hawrn] / ˈstægˌhɔrn /

noun

1. a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.

2. staghorn coral.

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adjective

1. made of or decorated with staghorn.

   a knife with a staghorn handle.

Etymology

Origin of staghorn

First recorded in 1655–65; stag + horn

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Example Sentences

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staghorn

The review covered hundreds of species on the IUCN's "red list" -- icons like staghorn and table corals whose mineral skeletons give reefs their dazzling three-dimensional complexity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

They carefully scraped away harmful algae and predators impinging on staghorn fragments, under the supervision and training of interns from Islamorada Conservation and Restoration Education, or I.CARE.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2023

Their mission now was to collect hundreds of fragments of staghorn and elkhorn for NOAA’s gene bank, plus any other species they had time to collect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

And the most heat-sensitive plants, including Max, a decades-old staghorn fern, and a group of orchids, have been moved from a greenhouse perch to a safer, cooler location.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

There’s a full staghorn fern that grows from the wall.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

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