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moplike

moplike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a mop, or the loose, dangling, fibrous mass at the end.

Adjective

moplike (comparative more moplike, superlative most moplike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mop, or the loose, dangling, fibrous mass at the end.
    • his moplike fringe of hair
    • The sooty blackness of the skin, the mop-like head of frizzly hair, and, most important of all, the marked form of countenance of quite a different type from that of the Malay, are what we cannot believe to result from mere climatal or other modifying influences on one and the same race.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 178

Forms of moplike

comparativemore moplike
superlativemost moplike

Origin of moplike

From mop + -like.

Questions about moplike

What does moplike mean?
Moplike means resembling or characteristic of a mop, or the loose, dangling, fibrous mass at the end.
What part of speech is moplike?
Moplike is an adjective.

Words near moplike in the dictionary

  1. mopishness
  2. Mopla
  3. Moplah
  4. Moplahs
  5. Moplas
  6. moplike
  7. mopoke
  8. mopokes
  9. MOPOL
  10. Mopologist
  11. Mopologists

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