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tarantulalike

tarantulalike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a tarantula.

Adjective

tarantulalike (comparative more tarantulalike, superlative most tarantulalike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tarantula.
    • Del Sarto’s “Madonna of the Steps,” too fragile to travel from the Prado, appears here in the form of sketched details: images of piled drapery, of nude bodies (studio staff was no doubt recruited to pose), of detached feet and hands (including a tarantulalike set of fingers) and of a sweet child’s...2015 October 22, Holland Cotter, “Review: A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection”, in New York Times

Forms of tarantulalike

comparativemore tarantulalike
superlativemost tarantulalike

Origin of tarantulalike

From tarantula + -like.

Questions about tarantulalike

What does tarantulalike mean?
Tarantulalike means resembling or characteristic of a tarantula.
What part of speech is tarantulalike?
Tarantulalike is an adjective.

Words near tarantulalike in the dictionary

  1. tarantula killer
  2. tarantula killers
  3. tarantula wasp
  4. tarantula wasps
  5. tarantulae
  6. tarantulalike
  7. tarantular
  8. tarantulas
  9. tarantulated
  10. tarantulid
  11. tarantulids

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