Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a scoop.

Etymologies

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scoop +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The image showed a typical Ferengi male: scooplike ears, bald and bulging head, wrinkled nose and forehead and a seemingly endless supply of fanglike teeth.

    DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000

  • He fingered the deep blood groove in the scooplike head of the arrow and looked at it carefully.

    The War Terror 1908

  • Her face, turned away from me, was shaded by a wide round bonnet, not quite so painfully plain as the scooplike affair of the time, but with a drooping brim from which depended a slight frilling of sheer lace.

    54-40 or Fight Emerson Hough 1890

  • The scooplike Ferengi ear was highly sensitive, a product of evolution in Ferengal’s thin atmosphere, and Durok had no trouble locating the source.

    DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000

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