gooseberrylike
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]gooseberry + -like
Adjective
[edit]gooseberrylike (comparative more gooseberrylike, superlative most gooseberrylike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a gooseberry.
- 2003, Rachel Carson, The sea around us:
- There are gooseberrylike comb jellies, armed with grasping tentacles, and there are the shrimplike euphausiids that strain food from the water with their bristly appendages.