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Cerastes
Cerastes Ce*ras"tes, n. [L., a horned serpent, fr. Gr. ? horned, fr. ? horn.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.
Crotalus cerastes
Horned Horned, a. Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. --Coleridge. Horned bee (Zo["o]l.), a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head. Horned dace (Zo["o]l.), an American cyprinoid fish (Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of Chub. Horned frog (Zo["o]l.), a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids. Horned grebe (Zo["o]l.), a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head. Horned horse (Zo["o]l.), the gnu. Horned lark (Zo["o]l.), the shore lark. Horned lizard (Zo["o]l.), the horned toad. Horned owl (Zo["o]l.), a large North American owl (Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in color, and inhabiting different regions; -- called also great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared. Horned poppy. (Bot.) See Horn poppy, under Horn. Horned pout (Zo["o]l.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout. Horned rattler (Zo["o]l.), a species of rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder. Horned ray (Zo["o]l.), the sea devil. Horned screamer (Zo["o]l.), the kamichi. Horned snake (Zo["o]l.), the cerastes. Horned toad (Zo["o]l.), any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard. Horned viper. (Zo["o]l.) See Cerastes.

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- Erastes may refer to: Erastes (Ancient Greece), an adult male in a relationship with a younger male, also known as the philetor Erastes Fulmen, a character...
- Greece was a socially acknowledged relationship between an older male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in his teens. It was characteristic...
- was the erastes, the older and active partner. The eromenos was often depicted as beautiful, beardless and more youthful-looking than the erastes. Erômenos...
- battle (characteristics of the erastes). Instead, Phaedrus suggests that Achilles is the eromenos whose reverence of his erastes, Patroclus, was so great that...
- Erastes is the pen name of a female author from the United Kingdom, known for writing ****-themed historical and romantic fiction. Erastes initially began...
- Erastes tou oneirou (Gr****: Εραστές του ονείρου) is a 1974 Gr**** comedy film directed and written by Giannis Dalianidis. Dimitris (Dimitris Papamihail)...
- a clear relationship between them. Aeschylus refers to Achilles as the erastes, while Phaedrus refers to Achilles as the eromenos of the relationship...
- Éraste d'Odet d'Orsonnens (April 11, 1836 – December 24, 1906) was a notary, author and politician in Quebec. He served as mayor of Hull from 1889 to 1890...
- Erastes (lover) and Eromenos (beloved) kissing. Tondo of an Attic red-figured cup, c. 480 BC...
- both erastes and eromenos, were expected to show restraint in the relationship. Soon after, the younger man gives in to his new mentor—erastes—and receives...