Prominent feature of a unicorn
• A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed. • The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed. • Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.