corneous.

Hard and resembling horn in substance or texture.

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Words that belong together

• corneous sheath
• corneous claw

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A corneous sheath protected the creature's slender claw.

He tapped the corneous plate and heard a dry click.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a material, structural, phonetic, or color classification; use degree language only for a meaningful resemblance. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.