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Definition of Hornlike
1. Adjective. Made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn).
Definition of Hornlike
1. Adjective. Describing something projecting like a horn. ¹
2. Adjective. Describing a hard substance similar to horn. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hornlike
1. resembling a horn [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornlike
Literary usage of Hornlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Feeds and Feeding: A Hand-book for the Student and Stockman by William Arnon Henry (1910)
"In dent corn the starch is partly hornlike and partly floury, rendering the kernel
easy of ... In flint corn the starch is mostly hornlike and flinty, ..."
2. Feeds and Feeding Abridged by William Arnon Henry, Frank Barron Morrison (1915)
"In dent corn the starch is partly hornlike and partly floury, rendering the kernel
easy of ... In flint corn the starch is mostly hornlike and flinty, ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1881)
"It is opaque and impervious to light, except for a short space in front, where
it is transformed into a kind of bow-window of transparent hornlike substance ..."
4. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... a conspicuous tumid rosette surrounding rictus; eyelids with deciduous horny
plates, that on upper eyelid in one species erect, hornlike. ..."
5. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Leonard Pearson (1916)
"The hornlike slough may thus involve the superficial part of the skin only, or
the whole thickness of the skin, and even of some of the structures beneath. ..."
6. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"Calyx short, broadly campanulate, with 5 erect teeth, and 5 elongated, spreading,
hornlike processes. Sta. 10, alternate ones very long. Sty. filiform. ..."
7. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology by William Allen Pusey (1917)
"The lesions consist of •hornlike, closely adherent 'crusts from the size of a
pinhead to the diameter of a lead pencil. On the palms and soles there may be ..."
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