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hooflike

hooflike

7.6
A part that looks like a hoof with a hard, thick covering
  • adjective
  • /ˈhuːflaɪk/
translation icon : similar a un casco
  • The lizard's feet had a hooflike appearance, adapted for walking on rocky terrain.

Examples

  • After years of walking barefoot, he developed thick, hooflike calluses on his soles.

  • Many dinosaurs had hooflike structures on their feet.

  • The fossil showed evidence of hooflike structures, hinting at its evolutionary history.

  • The animal had hooflike feet adapted for running.

  • The lizard's feet had a hooflike appearance, adapted for walking on rocky terrain.

  • After years of walking barefoot, he developed thick, hooflike calluses on his soles.

  • The animal had hooflike feet adapted for running across the plains.

Synonyms

hooved
vshooflike
4.3

An animal with hard feet like a cow or horse

focuses on looking like a hard horny foot covering rather than having it
ungual
vshooflike
  • Specialized
9.9

Relating to the nails, claws, or hooves of animals

is narrower, meaning resemblance to a hard horny foot covering only

Surface Forms

hooflike positive

Morphology

hooflike = hoof (transparent) = hoof + like

Formed by the noun 'hoof' + productive adjectival suffix '-like', meaning 'resembling a hoof' which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Hooflike comes from hoof, which originally meant 'the hard foot of an animal', and the ending -like, which means 'similar to'. So hooflike means 'similar to a hoof', like a hard, horn-like or rounded foot, and that is why we use it for thick, hard patches on the skin or for fossil parts that look like hooves.