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shelllike

shelllike is the uncommon spelling of shell-like.

Meaning of shell-like

Adjective

shell-like (comparative more shell-like, superlative most shell-like)

  1. Having a similar shape to a seashell.
  2. (dated, literary) Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell.
    • "Nay, speak not so hastily; consider well the point; take me feature by feature, forgetting not my form, and my hands and feet, and my hair, and the whiteness of my skin, and then tell me truly, hast thou ever known a woman who in aught, ay, in one little portion of her beauty, in the curve of an...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

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Forms of shelllike

comparativemore shelllike
superlativemost shelllike

Questions about shelllike

What is shelllike the uncommon spelling of?
Shelllike is the uncommon spelling of shell-like.

Words near shelllike in the dictionary

  1. shelliness
  2. shelling
  3. shelling out
  4. shellings
  5. shellless
  6. shelllike
  7. Shellman
  8. Shellmans
  9. shellmound
  10. shellmounds
  11. Shello

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