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dinolike

dinolike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a dinosaur.

Adjective

dinolike (comparative more dinolike, superlative most dinolike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dinosaur.
    • Paleontologists had previously dug up fossil evidence of feathers that adorned dinolike birds of the Archaeopteryx genus and other more ancient avian ancestors.2014 July 24, Meghan Rosen, “Feathered dinosaurs may have been the rule, not the exception”, in Science News
    • And that could mean there could one day be something even more dinolike pecking away in my friend’s backyard.2014 December 16, Sarah Zielinski, “The dinosaurs in the backyard”, in Science News

Forms of dinolike

comparativemore dinolike
superlativemost dinolike

Origin of dinolike

From dino + -like.

Questions about dinolike

What does dinolike mean?
Dinolike means resembling or characteristic of a dinosaur.
What part of speech is dinolike?
Dinolike is an adjective.

Words near dinolike in the dictionary

  1. dinokaryote
  2. dinokaryotes
  3. dinokaryotic
  4. dinokont
  5. dinokonts
  6. dinolike
  7. dinomania
  8. dinomaniac
  9. dinomaniacs
  10. dinomastigote
  11. dinomastigotes

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