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pumicelike

pumicelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of pumice.

Adjective

pumicelike (comparative more pumicelike, superlative most pumicelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of pumice.
    • “We used to use a pumicelike product,” he said.2007 April 26, Anna Jane Grossmann, “Dentist Appointment at Tiffany’s”, in New York Times

Forms of pumicelike

comparativemore pumicelike
superlativemost pumicelike

Origin of pumicelike

From pumice + -like.

Questions about pumicelike

What does pumicelike mean?
Pumicelike means resembling or characteristic of pumice.
What part of speech is pumicelike?
Pumicelike is an adjective.

Words near pumicelike in the dictionary

  1. pumice raft
  2. pumice rafts
  3. pumice stone
  4. pumice stones
  5. pumiced
  6. pumicelike
  7. pumiceous
  8. pumicer
  9. pumicers
  10. pumices
  11. pumiciform

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