What is "hornlike"

Usage examples of "hornlike".

It sat on a coil of its own body, propped up by two small hornlike claws where the coil rose off the floor.

He was brought from his tranquility a moment later, when a large bird, an owl with tufted, hornlike feathers on its rounded head, rushed suddenly overhead.

The pilot turned around, and the interior light revealed a thatch of orange hair with two small, red hornlike protrusions.

The nearest body was unmistakably a joker, the face elongated into a furry snout and the hands hornlike claws.

Peanut touched her on the arm, and Misha felt herself draw away involuntarily from contact with his hornlike, inflexible fingers.

Some were carrying hornlike spikes similar to those on the building down the street.

His stag lifted its front two legs and pawed the air, its bi-hooves glinting like glass, though they were a hardier material, hornlike and durable.

Williams said, waving at a hornlike metal tube connected to a bank of electronics cabinets.

The hornlike bellowing was constant, as if the creature had no need to pause and take fresh breath.

The hornlike material proved resilient enough to stop the attacks of most other creatures.

Vividly colored and adorned with long hornlike appendages on their snouts, they moved gracefully into a patch of bright sunlight and then paused, their long noses curling as they sniffed the air.

Chytrine held her right index finger up and it quickly lengthened into a slender hornlike needle.

Shadows clung like billows of smoke to the curled, hornlike capitals and, above them, the infrastructure of the massive three-tiered architrave.

His beard and hair were of trailing gray and green moss, and hornlike limbs twisted up from his head.

From overhead came the mellow, hornlike calls of migrating swans, abandoning the fens for their winter refuges on the Southern Continent even though the first frost had yet to touch Moss.