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ladderlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From ladder + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).
   • How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa. 1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244:
   • The fastest moving components of capsular polysaccharides can usually be separated as distinct bands in a ladderlike pattern by gel electrophoresis... 1989, Elizabeth F Neufeld, Victor Ginsburg, Complex Carbohydrates:

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