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moplike en · ADJ

Etymology

From mop + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a mop, or the loose, dangling, fibrous mass at the end.
   • his moplike fringe of hair
   • The sooty blackness of the skin, the mop-like head of frizzly hair, and, most important of all, the marked form of countenance of quite a different type from that of the Malay, are what we cannot believe to result from mere climatal or other modifying influences on one and the same race. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 178:

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