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starfishlike

starfishlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a starfish.

Adjective

starfishlike (comparative more starfishlike, superlative most starfishlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a starfish.
    • Temperate butterworts come into growth in spring, producing flat, often starfishlike rosettes of narrow, tapered leaves […]1998, Peter D'Amato, The savage garden: cultivating carnivorous plants

Forms of starfishlike

comparativemore starfishlike
superlativemost starfishlike

Origin of starfishlike

From starfish + -like.

Questions about starfishlike

What does starfishlike mean?
Starfishlike means resembling or characteristic of a starfish.
What part of speech is starfishlike?
Starfishlike is an adjective.

Words near starfishlike in the dictionary

  1. starfish-associated densovirus
  2. starfish-associated densoviruses
  3. starfished
  4. starfishes
  5. starfishing
  6. starfishlike
  7. starfleet
  8. starfleets
  9. starflower
  10. starflowers
  11. starforming

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