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rodentlike

rodentlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a rodent.

Adjective

rodentlike (comparative more rodentlike, superlative most rodentlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a rodent.
    • The first mammals were small, nocturnal, rodentlike creatures that skittered around the feet of dinosaurs for 140 million years.2007 February 20, Natalie Angier, “A Mammal in Winter With a Furnace of Her Own”, in New York Times

Forms of rodentlike

comparativemore rodentlike
superlativemost rodentlike

Origin of rodentlike

From rodent + -like.

Questions about rodentlike

What does rodentlike mean?
Rodentlike means resembling or characteristic of a rodent.
What part of speech is rodentlike?
Rodentlike is an adjective.

Words near rodentlike in the dictionary

  1. rodenticidal
  2. rodenticide
  3. rodenticides
  4. rodentine
  5. rodentless
  6. rodentlike
  7. rodentologist
  8. rodentologists
  9. rodentology
  10. rodentophobia
  11. rodentproof

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