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buglike

buglike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a bug (insect).

Adjective

buglike (comparative more buglike, superlative most buglike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bug (insect).
    • But the birds and the buglike things the birds ate weren’t the only things out there.1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press
    • He might orchestrate the curved lines into stepped, hivelike hills punctuated by dark tunnels where ornate trains and buglike cars or buses chug in or out along extravagantly banked roadways or railroad beds defined by further lines.2007 January 26, Roberta Smith, “Outside In”, in New York Times

Synonyms of buglike

Forms of buglike

comparativemore buglike
superlativemost buglike

Origin of buglike

From bug + -like.

Questions about buglike

What does buglike mean?
Buglike means resembling or characteristic of a bug (insect).
What part of speech is buglike?
Buglike is an adjective.

Words near buglike in the dictionary

  1. buglest
  2. buglet
  3. buglets
  4. bugleweed
  5. bugleweeds
  6. buglike
  7. bugling
  8. buglings
  9. Bugliosi
  10. Bugliosis
  11. bugloss

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