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  • adjective Resembling a whale or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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whale +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Soil, trees and fauna accrete to the zaratan, the monstrous whalelike creatures, which are being poachedfor bones and skin, killing off a whole ecosystem.

    Movie Review: Avatar and a Comparison II « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • Exactly the kind of woman who made Eva feel clumsy and whalelike.

    Winter Bloom Tara Heavey 2010

  • Last week the 585-pound Oahu native -- born Salevaa Alisanoe -- thudded, whalelike, onto Japanese billboards.

    Making A Really Big Splash 2008

  • As the raconteur described vast glaciers and rivers of lava, Sigur Ros added thumping bass notes and the haunting whalelike sounds of a bow rubbed across the face of a Gibson Les Paul guitar.

    Nothing But Music 2007

  • Oglethorpe tapped on one of the displays to reveal a whalelike creature with massive side tentacles that branched into rudimentary hands.

    Old Mans War 2005

  • Basilosaurus–wrongly named–is considered the progenitor of a number of the ensuing forms you name; but, Basilosaurus was already a whalelike animal.

    Catholic Church Supports Neo-Paleyism? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Henna tattoos snaked around her fingers and over her knuckles before making their way up her arms and under the sleeves of a gold sari, where they were swallowed by the deep folds of her whalelike interior.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • Henna tattoos snaked around her fingers and over her knuckles before making their way up her arms and under the sleeves of a gold sari, where they were swallowed by the deep folds of her whalelike interior.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • Henna tattoos snaked around her fingers and over her knuckles before making their way up her arms and under the sleeves of a gold sari, where they were swallowed by the deep folds of her whalelike interior.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • Tertiary; in the marine deposits of the Eocene are found the bones of the Zeuglodon, a whalelike creature seventy feet in length.

    The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

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