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geyserlike

geyserlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a geyser.

Adjective

geyserlike (comparative more geyserlike, superlative most geyserlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a geyser.
    • I soon caught my first glimpse of it: a pillar of spray rising geyserlike into the air and subsiding, leaving a cloud of mist hanging over the sea.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 203

Forms of geyserlike

comparativemore geyserlike
superlativemost geyserlike

Origin of geyserlike

From geyser + -like.

Questions about geyserlike

What does geyserlike mean?
Geyserlike means resembling or characteristic of a geyser.
What part of speech is geyserlike?
Geyserlike is an adjective.

Words near geyserlike in the dictionary

  1. geyserine
  2. geysering
  3. geyserish
  4. geyserite
  5. geyserites
  6. geyserlike
  7. geysers
  8. Geyserville
  9. geysery
  10. gezeirah
  11. gezeirot

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