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raillike

raillike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a rail (the bird).

Adjective

raillike (comparative more raillike, superlative most raillike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a rail (the bird).
    • This is the only long flight I have seen and it reminded me of the flight of a water ouzel. The other two flights I have seen were short and raillike.1926, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Birds: Marsh Birds, page 336

Forms of raillike

comparativemore raillike
superlativemost raillike

Origin of raillike

From rail + -like.

Questions about raillike

What does raillike mean?
Raillike means resembling or characteristic of a rail (the bird).
What part of speech is raillike?
Raillike is an adjective.

Words near raillike in the dictionary

  1. railless
  2. railleur
  3. railleurs
  4. raillied
  5. raillies
  6. raillike
  7. railline
  8. raillines
  9. railly
  10. raillying
  11. railman

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