Usually means: Horn-shaped anatomical structure or object.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word cornu:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. cornu: Merriam-Webster
  2. cornu: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cornu: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cornu: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cornu: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cornu, cornu: Wordnik
  7. cornu: Wiktionary
  8. cornu: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cornu: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cornu: Dictionary.com
  11. Cornu (horn), Cornu: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cornu: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cornu: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. cornu: Rhymezone
  15. Cornu: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cornu: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cornu: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. cornu: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Cornu: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cornu: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cornu: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. cornu: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cornu: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cornu: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

(Note: See cornua as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cornu)

▸ noun:  A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
▸ noun:  A brass instrument from Ancient Rome about 3 metres long in the shape of a letter 'G'.
▸ noun:  A surname from French.
▸ noun:  (mathematics, attributive use) French mathematician Marie Alfred Cornu (1841–1902).

Similar:
genus cornus, corniculum, cornicle, corneolus, horn, corno, crumhorn, cornucopia, mano cornuta, cyclorn, more...

Opposite:
acornuate, acorn-shaped, uncorned

Phrases:
greater cornu, uterine cornu, lesser cornu, cornu spiral, sacral cornu, more...

Adjectives:
greater, anterior, posterior, inferior, uterine, superior, lesser, right, left, sacral, hyoid

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Similar:
genus cornus, corniculum, cornicle, corneolus, horn, corno, crumhorn, cornucopia, mano cornuta, cyclorn, more...

Opposite:
acornuate, acorn-shaped, uncorned

Phrases:
greater cornu, uterine cornu, lesser cornu, cornu spiral, sacral cornu, cornu ammonis, ventral cornu, dorsal cornu, cornu copiae, cornu cutaneum, lateral cornu, nasal cornu, thyroid cartilage cornu, more...

Adjectives:
greater, anterior, posterior, inferior, uterine, superior, lesser, right, left, sacral, hyoid



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