fetuslike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fetus.
Example Sentences
- "From the descriptions of the fetuslike aliens -- known, in U.F.O. parlance, as Grays -- to the experiments they performed, the sex was nonstop: men told of anal probes and forced sperm-taking; women, artificial insemination and removal of embryos."
- "For the record, "Teletubbies" stars four oversized, non-gendered, fetuslike creatures named Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po."
- "At the end of “2001,” Kubrick leaves us with the strange, ambiguous image of a glowing fetuslike creature floating over Earth."
- "Two other conditions can be confused with parasitic twins: fetus-in-fetu and mature teratoma. The first refers to a skin-covered, fetuslike abnormal mass that’s mostly inside the newborn. Mature teratomas are, instead, a type of cancer that may become malignant."
Etymology
From fetus + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more fetuslike (comparative)
most fetuslike (superlative)