Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

suturelike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: su-ture-like
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a suture.

Example Sentences

"The evidence of material richness continues where crafts traditions and modernist abstraction meet: in moss-green yarn reliefs by the Ethiopian artist Elias Sime; in Nicholas Hlobo’s suturelike stitched pieces based on Zulu needlework; and in enigmatic collages by Moshekwa Langa, one of several artists in the show who were also in “Africa Remix,” the grand contemporary survey in 2005 that never made it from Europe to the United States."

Etymology

From suture + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: suture

Inflected Forms

more suturelike (comparative) most suturelike (superlative)

Questions

What does suturelike mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a suture.
Where does suturelike come from?: From suture + -like.

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