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dinosaurlike

dinosaurlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a dinosaur.

Adjective

dinosaurlike (comparative more dinosaurlike, superlative most dinosaurlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dinosaur.
    • No one is ready to let an embryo experiment hatch yet. But when that point is reached, when the plan is to have a fully formed dinosaurlike chick hatch, then the experiment will come under review boards that deal with animal welfare.2009 March 28, James Gordon, Jack Horner, “Which comes first? The dinosaur or the egg?”, in The Globe and Mail
    • Biologists and artists later proposed alternatives, albeit fanciful, that were more plausibly dinosaurlike and less biased towards the form of our own species.2023 June 7, Massimo Sandal, “How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate”, in Scientific American

Forms of dinosaurlike

comparativemore dinosaurlike
superlativemost dinosaurlike

Origin of dinosaurlike

From dinosaur + -like.

Words formed from dinosaurlike

Questions about dinosaurlike

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

Words near dinosaurlike in the dictionary

  1. dinosauriforms
  2. dinosaurish
  3. dinosaurium
  4. dinosaurkind
  5. dinosaurless
  6. dinosaurlike
  7. dinosauroid
  8. dinosauroids
  9. dinosaurologist
  10. dinosaurologists
  11. dinosaurology

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