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  • adjective Resembling an obelisk.

Etymologies

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obelisk +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Monument Field, where the best soil was, named for an obelisklike rock that stood alongside it.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • The two men were sitting in the sparely furnished main room of Tomi, the obelisklike concrete structure Akinaga had built for himself as a retreat.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • The report proposes a "Landscape of Thorns" with giant obelisklike stones sticking out of the earth at odd angles.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2009

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