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grublike

grublike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a grub.

Adjective

grublike (comparative more grublike, superlative most grublike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a grub.
    • Placental mammals that gestate their young internally, as do we and most of the pelts we know, account for 95 percent of the world’s 5,600 species of mammals, and marsupials like the kangaroo, koala and our very own opossum, whose young are born at a grublike stage and do most of their developing...2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times

Forms of grublike

comparativemore grublike
superlativemost grublike

Origin of grublike

From grub + -like.

Questions about grublike

What does grublike mean?
Grublike means resembling or characteristic of a grub.
What part of speech is grublike?
Grublike is an adjective.

Words near grublike in the dictionary

  1. grubhood
  2. grubhouse
  3. grubhouses
  4. Grubišno Polje
  5. grubless
  6. grublike
  7. grubling
  8. grublings
  9. Grubmeyer
  10. grubroot
  11. grubs

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