horselike
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a word derived from
horse.
horsenouna 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.
Example Sentences
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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
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