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raptorlike

raptorlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a raptor (the bird of prey).

Adjective

raptorlike (comparative more raptorlike, superlative most raptorlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a raptor (the bird of prey).
    • Reporting in the journal Animal Behaviour, researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University and the University of South Bohemia described transactions among great grey shrikes, elegant raptorlike birds with silver capes, white bellies and black tails that, like 90 percent of bird species, form pair...2008 March 18, Natalie Angier, “In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy”, in New York Times

Forms of raptorlike

comparativemore raptorlike
superlativemost raptorlike

Origin of raptorlike

From raptor + -like.

Questions about raptorlike

What does raptorlike mean?
Raptorlike means resembling or characteristic of a raptor (the bird of prey).
What part of speech is raptorlike?
Raptorlike is an adjective.

Words near raptorlike in the dictionary

  1. raptor
  2. raptorial
  3. raptorially
  4. raptorious
  5. raptorish
  6. raptorlike
  7. raptors
  8. rapts
  9. rapture
  10. rapture of the deep
  11. raptured

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