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hornlike

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Adj.1.hornlike - made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)
hard - resisting weight or pressure

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For example, when I showed Masumba a 1980s photograph from Mwinilunga, Northwestern Province, of a cibangula crown with three tubular, hornlike shapes on top of the head, (32) he laughed, calling it an "old model" that looked like a hat with antennae that belonged in a communications room.
The beetles even have hornlike projections near their necks that keep the floss from slipping over their bodies.
However, in these cases the hornlike extensions seem to imitate a braided headdress rather than ram's horns (Frobenius 1990:48 and Fig.
 
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