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stegosauruslike

stegosauruslike adjective: resembling or characteristic of stegosauruses.

Adjective

stegosauruslike (comparative more stegosauruslike, superlative most stegosauruslike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of stegosauruses.
    • For the past year the Air and Space Museum had been negotiating with Pritchard as the Space Agency liaison for new material to display: lunar hoppers taken out of ser-vice, prototypes of the stegosauruslike He-3 mining rovers, Jason Dvorak's blueprints for a remodeled Columbus.1993, Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Assemblers of Infinity, New York: Bantam Books, page 248
    • The bony plates protecting his head, back, and tail had yet to grow to their full size, and there was no evidence of the spectacular, stegosauruslike plates growing from the shoulder blades, but in most ways he was an exact replica of his parent—a chip off the old block.1998, Stephen Molstad, Godzilla: The Novelization, Boxtree, pages 220-221

Forms of stegosauruslike

comparativemore stegosauruslike
superlativemost stegosauruslike
alternative formstegosaurus-like

Origin of stegosauruslike

From stegosaurus + -like.

Questions about stegosauruslike

What does stegosauruslike mean?
Stegosauruslike means resembling or characteristic of stegosauruses.
What part of speech is stegosauruslike?
Stegosauruslike is an adjective.

Words near stegosauruslike in the dictionary

  1. stegosaurines
  2. stegosaurs
  3. stegosaurus
  4. stegosaurus-like
  5. stegosauruses
  6. stegosauruslike
  7. stegostom
  8. stegostomatal
  9. stegotext
  10. stegs
  11. stegural

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