linklike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a series of links, as in a chain; catenulate.
Example Sentences
- "The thallus may be one (Plate I, A–C, F) or few-celled, often linklike (Plate I, D, I) and monophagous, or may be segmented and hyphalike (Plate I, E, L) and extend through many host cells."
- "Maybe men sensed this linklike closeness, mother linked to daughter, daughter linked to mother, daughter, mother, daughter, mother, daughter stretching back through time, forward through time, linked on a single pulsing cord from one end of eternity to the other."
- "Ribbon lightning looks like parallel streaks of bright light, while chain lightning is a flash that forms a series of linklike streaks as it fades."
Etymology
From link + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more linklike (comparative)
most linklike (superlative)