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gorilla-like

gorilla-like is the alternative spelling of gorillalike.

Meaning of gorillalike

Adjective

gorillalike (comparative more gorillalike, superlative most gorillalike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
    • The faint light that filtered in from above showed him a large, low-ceiled vault from which several doorways led off into inky darkness, but there was no need to thread an unknown way, for there before him lay the objects of his search—the mad brute had the girl upon the floor, and gorilla-like...1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 171

Forms of gorilla-like

comparativemore gorilla-like
superlativemost gorilla-like

Questions about gorilla-like

What is gorilla-like the alternative spelling of?
Gorilla-like is the alternative spelling of gorillalike.

Words near gorilla-like in the dictionary

  1. gorilla press
  2. gorilla salad
  3. Gorilla Sign Language
  4. gorilla suit
  5. gorilla suits
  6. gorilla-like
  7. Gorillae
  8. gorillaesque
  9. gorillagram
  10. gorillagrams
  11. gorillahon

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