Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a pike (fish).

Etymologies

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pike +‎ -like

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Examples

  • And there was the diagnostic long, flat, vaguely pikelike head that marked him as a bull trout.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • And there was the diagnostic long, flat, vaguely pikelike head that marked him as a bull trout.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • And there was the diagnostic long, flat, vaguely pikelike head that marked him as a bull trout.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • And there was the diagnostic long, flat, vaguely pikelike head that marked him as a bull trout.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • Most curious were tripods, strong, pikelike legs of golden metal four feet high, holding small circles of the lapis with intaglios of one curious symbol somewhat resembling the ideographs of the

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Most curious were tripods, strong, pikelike legs of golden metal four feet high, holding small circles of the lapis with intaglios of one curious symbol somewhat resembling the ideographs of the Chinese.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • Most curious were tripods, strong, pikelike legs of golden metal four feet high, holding small circles of the lapis with intaglios of one curious symbol somewhat resembling the ideographs of the Chinese.

    The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

  • Slender pikelike stumps of fire-devastated firs rose here and there, black and grim skeletons of trees.

    Wayside Courtships Hamlin Garland 1900

  • Having thus rudely, and very pikelike, knocked my nose against the bottom -- this book was, most assuredly, the bottom of the literature of

    Confessions of a Young Man 1892

  • There came no color to his cheek; nor did the piscatorial eye blaze up, but abode as pikelike as before.

    The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

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