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horselike

  • a word derived from horse.
    horse
    noun
    a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.

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The artist-turned-filmmaker even incorporates a striking image from one of his oils — that of a translucent horselike creature — as an enigmatic visual motif that proves more ponderous than poetic.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

The students — at first timid around the carcass — began to move closer, petting the moose and examining its ears, its long gray tongue and its horselike face.

From New York Times Jan. 10, 2022

“Reply All,” Alex Goldman and P. J. Vogt’s long-running Gimlet podcast about the Internet, is reliably excellent at explicating our interconnected world, and punctuated by the hosts’ razzing rapport and Vogt’s charmingly horselike laugh.

From The New Yorker Dec. 21, 2019

“Hippocampi” are the horselike sea monsters that drove Neptune’s chariot in ancient myth; “Tianhe” comes from the ancient Chinese name for the Milky Way.

From Washington Post Feb. 26, 2019

Mary was aware of the smell of roasting corn, and the warm smell of the mulefa themselves—part oil, part warm flesh, a sweet horselike smell.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman