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bonelike

bonelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of bone.

Adjective

bonelike (comparative more bonelike, superlative most bonelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of bone.
    • To the south, as Halliday followed the winding course of the river, the darkness gave way to the deep indigo tracts of the irrigation project, the lines of canals forming an exquisite bonelike gridwork.”2009 September 13, Jonathan Lethem, “Poet of Desolate Landscapes”, in New York Times

Forms of bonelike

comparativemore bonelike
superlativemost bonelike

Origin of bonelike

From bone + -like.

Questions about bonelike

What does bonelike mean?
Bonelike means resembling or characteristic of bone.
What part of speech is bonelike?
Bonelike is an adjective.

Words near bonelike in the dictionary

  1. boneless lean beef trimmings
  2. bonelessly
  3. bonelessness
  4. bonelet
  5. bonelets
  6. bonelike
  7. Bonelli
  8. bonelliid
  9. bonellin
  10. Bonellis
  11. Bonello

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