Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of an umbrella.

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  • adjective resembling an umbrella

Etymologies

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umbrella +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Mr. Fuchs might walk you to the back patio and ask you to push a metal switch, which automatically opens an umbrellalike line for drying clothes.

    Sunday Reading 2009

  • When the satellite sent the inquiry, huge umbrellalike antennas began to look for the specific frequency and tone of the encoded response, which, diminutive as it is, still can be counted on to register.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • When the satellite sent the inquiry, huge umbrellalike antennas began to look for the specific frequency and tone of the encoded response, which, diminutive as it is, still can be counted on to register.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • On through roads lined with dense vegetation; the songs of the MAYNAS and the stripe-throated BULBULS streamed out from trees with huge, umbrellalike branches.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • On through roads lined with dense vegetation; the songs of the MAYNAS and the stripe-throated BULBULS streamed out from trees with huge, umbrellalike branches.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • Its material was a fuzzy frieze of nondescript colors, a shade of dingy yellow predominating, and its shape was weird and umbrellalike.

    Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • The umbrella pine has long, dark-green needles borne on umbrellalike clusters.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • Mr. Fuchs might walk you to the back patio and ask you to push a metal switch, which automatically opens an umbrellalike line for drying clothes.

    Bark Bark Woof Woof 2009

  • Mr. Fuchs might walk you to the back patio and ask you to push a metal switch, which automatically opens an umbrellalike line for drying clothes.

    Bark Bark Woof Woof 2009

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