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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

boatlike en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English boat Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English boatlike From boat + -like.

Meanings

  1. Resembling a boat
    • The bigger problem, though, was finding a space that could accommodate the boatlike LS, which is 198 inches long. 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Selingo, “How Well Can a Lexus Park Itself?”, in New York Times:

Forms

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more boatlike Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most boatlike Degree=Sup lexicographic