Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gooseberrylike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: goose-ber-ry-like
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a gooseberry.

Example Sentences

"There are gooseberrylike comb jellies, armed with grasping tentacles, and there are the shrimplike euphausiids that strain food from the water with their bristly appendages."

Etymology

From gooseberry + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: gooseberry

Inflected Forms

more gooseberrylike (comparative) most gooseberrylike (superlative)

Questions

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

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