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whalelike

whalelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a whale.

Adjective

whalelike (comparative more whalelike, superlative most whalelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a whale.
    • But there were others, too. Whalelike things that glided serenely through murky depths, warmed by a radioactive core they had assembled in the moon’s core.1995 September, Gregory Benford, “The Place of Angry Gods”, in Sailing Bright Eternity (The Galactic Center Novels; 6), New York, N.Y.: Spectra, →ISBN, page 15

Forms of whalelike

comparativemore whalelike
superlativemost whalelike

Origin of whalelike

From whale + -like.

Questions about whalelike

What does whalelike mean?
Whalelike means resembling or characteristic of a whale.
What part of speech is whalelike?
Whalelike is an adjective.

Words near whalelike in the dictionary

  1. whalehides
  2. whalehood
  3. whaleish
  4. whalekind
  5. whaleless
  6. whalelike
  7. whaleling
  8. whalelings
  9. whalelore
  10. whaleman
  11. whalemeat

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