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pondlike

pondlike adjective: resembling a pond.

Adjective

pondlike (not comparable)

  1. Resembling a pond
    • Small streams are usually swift; large streams tend to be slower and often have deep, pondlike areas.1974, Samuel Eddy, James Campbell Underhill, Northern Fishes, →ISBN, page 49
    • Lake Nipigon covers nearly 1,900 square miles, but on a map it looks pondlike compared with the body of water it drains into: Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes, or as the Anishinaabe call it, Anishinaabewi-gichigami—the Anishinaabe’s Great Lake.December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic

Origin of pondlike

From pond + -like.

Questions about pondlike

What does pondlike mean?
Pondlike means resembling a pond.
What part of speech is pondlike?
Pondlike is an adjective.

Words near pondlike in the dictionary

  1. pondis
  2. pondless
  3. pondlet
  4. pondlets
  5. pondlife
  6. pondlike
  7. pondlilies
  8. pondlily
  9. pondman
  10. pondmen
  11. pondness

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