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leprosylike

leprosylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of leprosy.

Adjective

leprosylike (comparative more leprosylike, superlative most leprosylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of leprosy.
    • Smith heads a group that is screening for leprosylike disease in armadillos in areas of the Texas Gulf Coast[…]1982, American Chemical Society, Chemical and engineering news, volume 60, numbers 1-9

Forms of leprosylike

comparativemore leprosylike
superlativemost leprosylike

Origin of leprosylike

From leprosy + -like.

Questions about leprosylike

What does leprosylike mean?
Leprosylike means resembling or characteristic of leprosy.
What part of speech is leprosylike?
Leprosylike is an adjective.

Words near leprosylike in the dictionary

  1. leprosities
  2. leprosity
  3. leprosol
  4. leprostatic
  5. leprosy
  6. leprosylike
  7. leprotene
  8. leprotic
  9. leprous
  10. leprous gold
  11. leprously

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