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magnesiumlike

magnesiumlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of magnesium.

Adjective

magnesiumlike (comparative more magnesiumlike, superlative most magnesiumlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of magnesium.
    • We sat in the car for about ten minutes watching that strange magnesiumlike glow. It did not budge.1977, Margaret Sachs, Ernest T. Jahn, Celestial passengers: UFO's and space travel
    • Sometimes star-cluster shells would pop out or real bright magnesiumlike stuff would come spewing out on the ground and burn white hot for fifteen or twenty minutes.2005, William L. Smallwood, Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War

Forms of magnesiumlike

comparativemore magnesiumlike
superlativemost magnesiumlike

Origin of magnesiumlike

From magnesium + -like.

Questions about magnesiumlike

What does magnesiumlike mean?
Magnesiumlike means resembling or characteristic of magnesium.
What part of speech is magnesiumlike?
Magnesiumlike is an adjective.

Words near magnesiumlike in the dictionary

  1. magnesium sulphide
  2. magnesium wire
  3. magnesium-24
  4. magnesium-25
  5. magnesium-26
  6. magnesiumlike
  7. magnesiuria
  8. magnesphere
  9. magnespheres
  10. magnesuria
  11. magnet

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