Word.ws English Dictionary

shootlike

shootlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a shoot (emerging stem of a new plant).

Adjective

shootlike (comparative more shootlike, superlative most shootlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a shoot (emerging stem of a new plant).

Forms of shootlike

comparativemore shootlike
superlativemost shootlike

Origin of shootlike

From shoot + -like.

Questions about shootlike

What does shootlike mean?
Shootlike means resembling or characteristic of a shoot (emerging stem of a new plant).
What part of speech is shootlike?
Shootlike is an adjective.

Words near shootlike in the dictionary

  1. shootists
  2. shootless
  3. shootlessness
  4. shootlet
  5. shootlets
  6. shootlike
  7. shootling
  8. shootlings
  9. Shooto
  10. shootoff
  11. shootoffs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shootlike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shootlike.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shootlike. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.