Definitions
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- adjective Describing something projecting like a
horn . - adjective Describing a hard substance similar to
horn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)
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Examples
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We find abundance instead in a variety named Sweet Banana, which is festooned with clusters of mouthwatering fruits, hornlike and as long as your hand.
Groundwork: The wonder of late-season peppers Adrian Higgins 2010
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But here's the kicker: Mr. Payton fills out the frontline with vocalist Johnaye Kendrick, who sings with a hornlike quality somewhere between lyrics and scatting (an approach popularized by Esperanza Spalding).
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Papilloma viruses cause the hornlike growths in rabbits that probably gave rise to myths of "jackalopes" in the American West.
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Papilloma viruses cause the hornlike growths in rabbits that probably gave rise to myths of "jackalopes" in the American West.
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This was, she had ex - plained, merely an extension of her natural ability to harden her substance into bonelike or hornlike rigidity.
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Papilloma viruses cause the hornlike growths in rabbits that probably gave rise to myths of "jackalopes" in the American West.
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Papilloma viruses cause the hornlike growths in rabbits that probably gave rise to myths of "jackalopes" in the American West.
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Apparently the hornlike structure had an importance she had not guessed.
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His ability to play hornlike lines, distorted by a cheap microphone, intertwining with Muddy's slide guitar, was one of the defining pieces of the Muddy Waters 'band's sound.
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Al the cop, a six-foot-four bruiser with a giant head and a hornlike voice, liked to play Devil's Advocate in between bites of his eggplant parmagian 'sangweech.
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