Associations to the word «Cornu»

Wiktionary

CORNU, noun. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
CORNU AMMONIS, noun. (paleontology) (obsolete) A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an ammonite.
CORNU AMMONIS, noun. (anatomy) (obsolete) The hippocampus of the brain.

Dictionary definition

CORNU, noun. (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats