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clawlike

clawlike adjective: resembling a claw.

Adjective

clawlike (comparative more clawlike, superlative most clawlike)

  1. Resembling a claw.
    • The tool, a clawlike gripper less than a millimeter in diameter, could grab cells from tissue for a biopsy, for example.2009 January 13, Henry Fountain, “A Microscopic Tool Inspired by the Human Hand”, in New York Times

Forms of clawlike

comparativemore clawlike
superlativemost clawlike

Origin of clawlike

From claw + -like.

Questions about clawlike

What does clawlike mean?
Clawlike means resembling a claw.
What part of speech is clawlike?
Clawlike is an adjective.

Words near clawlike in the dictionary

  1. clawing off
  2. clawingly
  3. clawings
  4. clawless
  5. clawlessness
  6. clawlike
  7. clawmark
  8. clawmarks
  9. claws
  10. claws away
  11. claws back

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