Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling skin or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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skin +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Fancy studied the skinlike leaves until she found the right one for Egbert.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • He pointed at a tree a few yards from where she sat: thick and squat with pale, skinlike leaves and fruit that looked like golden eyes.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Fancy studied the skinlike leaves until she found the right one for Egbert.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Fancy studied the skinlike leaves until she found the right one for Egbert.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Fancy studied the skinlike leaves until she found the right one for Egbert.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • He pointed at a tree a few yards from where she sat: thick and squat with pale, skinlike leaves and fruit that looked like golden eyes.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • He pointed at a tree a few yards from where she sat: thick and squat with pale, skinlike leaves and fruit that looked like golden eyes.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • He pointed at a tree a few yards from where she sat: thick and squat with pale, skinlike leaves and fruit that looked like golden eyes.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • It wore no clothing, and its bronze skinlike covering showed neither hair nor sexual characteristics.

    Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

  • No feathers, but a bony crest on its head, covered with some kind of loose, wrinkly, skinlike stuff with a fuzzy micro-fiber nap.

    Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010

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