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suturelike

suturelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a suture.

Adjective

suturelike (comparative more suturelike, superlative most suturelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a suture.
    • The evidence of material richness continues where crafts traditions and modernist abstraction meet: in moss-green yarn reliefs by the Ethiopian artist Elias Sime; in Nicholas Hlobo’s suturelike stitched pieces based on Zulu needlework; and in enigmatic collages by Moshekwa Langa, one of several...2008 April 4, Holland Cotter, “Out of Africa, Whatever Africa May Be”, in New York Times

Forms of suturelike

comparativemore suturelike
superlativemost suturelike

Origin of suturelike

From suture + -like.

Questions about suturelike

What does suturelike mean?
Suturelike means resembling or characteristic of a suture.
What part of speech is suturelike?
Suturelike is an adjective.

Words near suturelike in the dictionary

  1. suture tree
  2. suturectomies
  3. suturectomy
  4. sutured
  5. sutureless
  6. suturelike
  7. sutures
  8. suturing
  9. SUU
  10. Suurballe's algorithm
  11. suuure

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