Dictionary

buglike en · ADJ

Etymology

From bug + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bug (insect).
   • But the birds and the buglike things the birds ate weren’t the only things out there. 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
   • He might orchestrate the curved lines into stepped, hivelike hills punctuated by dark tunnels where ornate trains and buglike cars or buses chug in or out along extravagantly banked roadways or railroad beds defined by further lines. 2007 January 26, Roberta Smith, “Outside In”, in New York Times:

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Synonyms

insectoid · insectlike