What is "hooflike"

Usage examples of "hooflike".

Briefly, after the comet impact, the top predators around the water courses had been crocodile cousins with long legs and hooflike claws.

The hindquarters were as powerful as the shoulders, though the feet there were more hooflike than clawlike.

Then they came together with a thud of big bodies and a shower of hooflike fists.

Another ridge of curls tickled the back of her legs from knee to ankle, where her feet ended in two hard, hooflike toes.

When she walked, she glided, like a ballet dancer, her small hooflike feet more for the purpose of anchoring her to the ground than supporting her weight.

His own hand was engulfed by the huge and calloused extremity with hooflike nails.

She squatted, and he saw that her feet were not really hoofs, but human with virtually merged toes and heavy hooflike nails.

She was of course sexily human, except for her pert snout and hooflike feet.

As the cowboy thing reached for him with its hooflike hands, Jack grabbed the can and threw it.

His hind feet were hooflike, and he had a medium-length tail at his posterior, barbed at the tip.

Even their hands were assuming a certain hooflike quality, to enable them to scamper up on all fours, and their horns curled back to enable them to butt.

But his physical appearance repelled: the furry skin, the long snout in place of a nose, the hooflike hands, and beady eyes all seemed to denote a lesser intelligence.