wombatlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a wombat (burrowing marsupial).
Example Sentences
- "The ancestors of Australia's varied marsupial family throve here. There were giant possums, huge marsupial lions, and kangaroos. Great wombatlike creatures as big as cows called diprotodons lived there too."
- "This huge, wombatlike creature was adapted to grazing dry grasslands."
- "At that time, Australia was home to a fantastic assortment of enormous animals; these included a wombatlike creature the size of a hippo, a land tortoise nearly as big as a VW Beetle, and the giant short-faced kangaroo, which grew to be ten feet tall."
Etymology
From wombat + -like.
Inflected Forms
more wombatlike (comparative)
most wombatlike (superlative)
wombat-like (alternative)