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doughlike

doughlike adjective: resembling dough.

Adjective

doughlike (comparative more doughlike, superlative most doughlike)

  1. Resembling dough.
    • When the Turritopsis medusa rejuvenates, muscle cells, for example, turn certain genes on or off, essentially unbaking the cells and reverting them to doughlike stem cells.2017, Juli Berwald, “Life’s Limits”, in Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 153
    Synonyms:
    doughy

Synonyms of doughlike

Forms of doughlike

comparativemore doughlike
superlativemost doughlike

Origin of doughlike

From dough + -like.

Questions about doughlike

What does doughlike mean?
Doughlike means resembling dough.
What part of speech is doughlike?
Doughlike is an adjective.

Words near doughlike in the dictionary

  1. doughiest
  2. doughily
  3. doughiness
  4. doughing
  5. doughless
  6. doughlike
  7. doughmaker
  8. doughmakers
  9. doughmaking
  10. doughman
  11. Doughmans

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