What are cornua?

What are cornua? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of cornu
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The upper horns meet the back of the hyoid bone, while the inferior cornua are attached to the side of the cricoid, forming a pivotal joint.
The hyoid arch consists of a pair of cornua, each of which is divided into two halves.
Hypopharyngeal sclerites and dorsal and ventral cornua heavily sclerotized except posterior ends of cornua, which are lightly sclerotized.
The frontes are the edges of the roll, and the cornua are the projecting portions of the two wooden rollers.
The posterior cornua of the hyoid are remnants of the true arches.
Thus the larger cornua of the hyoid bone are not attached to the body of it in 75 to 95 per cent.

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