Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a cord or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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cord +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The scales were rough and sharp, the cordlike muscles underneath bulged and squeezed.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • The scales were rough and sharp, the cordlike muscles underneath bulged and squeezed.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • The scales were rough and sharp, the cordlike muscles underneath bulged and squeezed.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • He was taken from his mother in 1986 after state workers found scars on his face, cordlike marks on his abdomen and cigarette burns on his neck, shoulder blade and buttocks.

    Death Of A Child Criminal 2008

  • The cordlike appendages advanced across the floor slowly and silently, carrying with them the aroma of cloves and vanilla.

    Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • One warm summer day some visitors arrived, including a woman who was wearing a long skirt made out of some very light material and cinched with a cordlike belt with tassels that hung down in the back.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • One warm summer day some visitors arrived, including a woman who was wearing a long skirt made out of some very light material and cinched with a cordlike belt with tassels that hung down in the back.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • One warm summer day some visitors arrived, including a woman who was wearing a long skirt made out of some very light material and cinched with a cordlike belt with tassels that hung down in the back.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • One warm summer day some visitors arrived, including a woman who was wearing a long skirt made out of some very light material and cinched with a cordlike belt with tassels that hung down in the back.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • They have begun to understand that they are attached to the universe through a system of cordlike energies, that Soul bonds them in harmonic Oneness with all other Souls.

    Arcturian Songs of the Masters of Light Patricia L. Pereira 1999

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