Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a boulder.

Etymologies

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boulder +‎ -like

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Examples

  • It sprang up as tall as the townhouses bordering the street, a creature with small, rheumy eyes, boulderlike teeth, and an earsplitting roar.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • It sprang up as tall as the townhouses bordering the street, a creature with small, rheumy eyes, boulderlike teeth, and an earsplitting roar.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • The guards at the main entrance were giants bred, 230 centimeters of thick bone and boulderlike muscle.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • Okra let go of a boulderlike mass, and it dropped into the hole.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

  • Okra let go of a boulderlike mass, and it dropped into the hole.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

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