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wombatlike

wombatlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a wombat (burrowing marsupial).

Adjective

wombatlike (comparative more wombatlike, superlative most wombatlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a wombat (burrowing marsupial).
    • The ancestors of Australia's varied marsupial family throve here. There were giant possums, huge marsupial lions, and kangaroos. Great wombatlike creatures as big as cows called diprotodons lived there too.1981, Margaret Rau, Red Earth, Blue Sky: The Australian Outback, New York, N.Y: Crowell, page 5
    • This huge, wombatlike creature was adapted to grazing dry grasslands.2004, Diagram Group, On the Land, New York: Facts On File, page 49

Forms of wombatlike

comparativemore wombatlike
superlativemost wombatlike
alternative formwombat-like

Origin of wombatlike

From wombat + -like.

Questions about wombatlike

What does wombatlike mean?
Wombatlike means resembling or characteristic of a wombat (burrowing marsupial).
What part of speech is wombatlike?
Wombatlike is an adjective.

Words near wombatlike in the dictionary

  1. wombat trail
  2. wombat trails
  3. wombat-headed
  4. wombatiforms
  5. wombatish
  6. wombatlike
  7. wombats
  8. wombchild
  9. wombchildren
  10. wombed
  11. Wombelano

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