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Ram's horn   /ræmz hɔrn/   Listen
Ram's horn

noun
1.
Annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak.  Synonyms: common devil's claw, common unicorn plant, devil's claw, elephant-tusk, Proboscidea louisianica, proboscis flower.






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"Ram's horn" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Aldgate, in London, a very fine specimen of the Shophar or Ram's Horn is blown on New Year's Day, and ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... it," said the Hetman crossly. "This is not roast; it is ram's horn. Really Koukou is beginning to ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit

... a ram's horn, Sing ivy, sing ivy; And sowed it all over with one peppercorn. Sing holly, go ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

... features of the map I should say about two hundred miles. They say the river's as crooked as a ram's horn." ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner

... hideously ugly. He hasn't even the signs of a moustache or beard or eyebrows. Not because he shaved. God forbid, but simply because they would not grow. But for that again he had a pair of lips and a nose. Oh, what a nose! It was curved like a ram's horn. And he had a voice like a bull. He growled like a lion. Where did such a creature get such a terrible roar? And where did he get so much strength? When he took hold of you by the hand with his cold, bony fingers, you saw the next world. When he boxed your ears, you felt ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich



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