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What is the noun for cairnlike?

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cairn
  1. A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
  2. A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
  3. A cairn terrier.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The path veers off to the right to bring you to the summit of Hindscarth, marked with a large cairn.”
      “To the south are a stone circle, a cairn, two standing stones, and a large burial cist.”
      “Head east now over a broad whaleback to the cairn at 829m, the summit of Brown Cow Hill.”
cairns
  1. plural of cairn
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Now, their pyramid-shaped middens, or mussel-shell dumps, stand along the coastline like memorial cairns.”
      “The new quarry will destroy the undesignated, unforested eskers and also the burial cairns.”
      “It dens down in rocky cairns, under tree roots, sometimes even in the disused eyries of a golden eagle.”
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