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  • adjective Resembling a saucer.

Etymologies

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saucer +‎ -like

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Examples

  • In November of 2006, United Airlines employees at O'Hare Airport in Chicago reported seeing a "flying saucerlike object" hovering over Concourse C of the United terminal.

    Chicago O'Hare UFO: Leslie Kean Revisits 2006 'Sighting' On 'Colbert Report' (VIDEO) 2010

  • They had long snouts and great, saucerlike eyes that saw everything.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • They had long snouts and great, saucerlike eyes that saw everything.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • He saw spiny creatures with bloody saucerlike eyes struggling as they were dragged under by boiling masses of slippery black tentacles.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • I snapped this photo of three flying saucerlike clouds hovering over the 101 in Tarzana about an hour ago.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • They had long snouts and great, saucerlike eyes that saw everything.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • He saw spiny creatures with bloody saucerlike eyes struggling as they were dragged under by boiling masses of slippery black tentacles.

    City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

  • By slipping a $99 card into a slot under the keyboard, the iBook's built-in antennas can pick up a signal beamed by a $299 saucerlike base station (connected to a phone or Ethernet jack) the size of an ostrich egg.

    Apple?S Ibook: A Mac To Go 2008

  • A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Chicago Tribune: UFO Over O'Hare? 2007

  • A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O\'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Chicago Tribune: UFO Over O'Hare? 2007

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