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gooseberrylike

gooseberrylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a gooseberry.

Adjective

gooseberrylike (comparative more gooseberrylike, superlative most gooseberrylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gooseberry.
    • There are gooseberrylike comb jellies, armed with grasping tentacles, and there are the shrimplike euphausiids that strain food from the water with their bristly appendages.2003, Rachel Carson, The sea around us

Forms of gooseberrylike

comparativemore gooseberrylike
superlativemost gooseberrylike

Origin of gooseberrylike

From gooseberry + -like.

Questions about gooseberrylike

What does gooseberrylike mean?
Gooseberrylike means resembling or characteristic of a gooseberry.
What part of speech is gooseberrylike?
Gooseberrylike is an adjective.

Words near gooseberrylike in the dictionary

  1. gooseberry-grinders
  2. gooseberry-picker
  3. gooseberry-pickers
  4. gooseberrying
  5. gooseberryish
  6. gooseberrylike
  7. goosebone
  8. goosebones
  9. gooseboy
  10. gooseboys
  11. goosebump

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