Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
bowl or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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bowl + -like
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Examples
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Lizbeth glanced up long enough to see their bowllike helmets, the dull red ribbing at the shoulders of their uniforms, and the matching stripes on the pants stuffed into their boots.
GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007
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Miles 'space suit hung on its rack, the heavy fish-bowllike space helmet beside it in its open locker.
Treachery in Outer Space Carey Rockwell
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In the center of the park the bowllike sand of a long dried-up water hole seemed overlaid by a thin sheet of silver, and the tiny palms that circled its shores were dark pillars, topped by a crown of silver leaves.
The Plunderer Henry Oyen 1902
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