Dictionary

marblelike en · ADJ

Etymology

From marble + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling marble stone.
   • Meanwhile, Ann Bartek's semiabstract set--a mostly bare marblelike playing area decorated with straight and jagged stripes suggesting telephone wires—reminds us that this is a story steeped in a world-changing technological revolution. 2000 January 7, Albert Williams, “Person to Person”, in Chicago Reader:
2. Resembling a marble or marbles.
   • They were diverse morphologically--rods, spirals, marblelike cells--but they all had the same kind of biochemistry. 1997 May 2, Virginia Morell, “Microbial Biology: Microbiology's Scarred Revolutionary”, in Science, volume 276, number 5313, →DOI, pages 699–702:
   • Physicists back then explained the durability of matter by assuming that it was made up of identical, indestructible, marblelike atoms. 1996 January 26, Harold Henderson, “Twisted Science”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms

Synonyms

marmoreal

Translations (4)

mr संगमरवरासारखा (resembling marble stone — see also marmoreal) · mr संगमरवरासारखी (resembling marble stone — see also marmoreal) · cy marmoraidd (resembling marble stone — see also marmoreal) · mr संगमरवरासारखे (resembling marble stone — see also marmoreal)