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wortlike

wortlike adjective: like or resembling a wort.

Adjective

wortlike (comparative more wortlike, superlative most wortlike)

  1. Like or resembling a wort
    • Last Saturday, seeing the tumult beginning, I dismissed the students and tried to make my way home, but had great difficulty, because the field I was in was covered with wortlike ant-hills, and it was very difficult for me to keep my feet; […]1885, The Missionary Herald of the Baptist Missionary Society
    • Deadfalls clog the base of this falls, and moss and ferns abound, along with odd-looking two-leaved wortlike plants I couldn't identify.2004, Scott E. Brown, Pennsylvania Waterfalls: A Guide for Hikers & Photographers
    Synonyms:
    worty

Synonyms of wortlike

Forms of wortlike

comparativemore wortlike
superlativemost wortlike
alternative formwort-like

Origin of wortlike

From wort + -like.

Questions about wortlike

What does wortlike mean?
Wortlike means like or resembling a wort.
What part of speech is wortlike?
Wortlike is an adjective.

Words near wortlike in the dictionary

  1. worthynesse
  2. worthynesses
  3. Worting
  4. Wortley
  5. Wortleys
  6. wortlike
  7. wortlore
  8. Wortman
  9. Wortmann
  10. wortmannin
  11. Wortmanns

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