horselike
- adjective
- /ˈhɔːrslʌɪk/
:
similar a un caballo
- Their subject was a quagga, a horselike animal with a distinctive striped pattern.
- horselike animal
Examples
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The okapi, which is horselike in appearance, has hoofed feet and a long neck.
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Behind their eye ridges, their bristly snout hairs gave way to long, horselike manes which trailed elegantly behind them as they maneuvered in microgravity.
Fiction book (1998) -
Litopterns radiated in a number of different anatomical directions, with horselike forms evolving extreme specializations for running, such as losing all but one long toe on each foot.
Academic text (2009) -
The okapi was indeed horselike in its dimensions, reaching more than five feet at the withers, with a shorter, thicker neck than that of the savanna giraffe.
Academic text (1992) -
"And what does a Yaro do?" Hoxton nodded at the master of ceremonies, who was in the act of climbing off the slow-moving wagon to mount a waiting darif, a horselike animal that a police officer was holding for him.
Fiction book (2001) -
The early horse fossils we discovered revealed some horselike features in their skeletal structure.
Synonyms
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6.6
Relating to horses and animals like them
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6.0
Looking or behaving like a horse
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6.6
Like horses or showing a strong love for them
Having the shape or movement of a horse, often used in medicine to describe body parts
How Horse-like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Horselike is made from horse and -like, where -like means 'similar to'. You see the same -like in childlike or catlike. So horselike simply means something that looks or moves like a horse.