Relating to or resembling a casque or helmet, especially the helmet-like structure on some birds' heads.
From casque (a helmet) plus the suffix -an, creating an adjective form that describes helmet-like features.
Many birds have these cassican structures—like cassowaries with their hard bony helmet on top of their head, which they literally use to bash through rainforest vegetation!
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