Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of
rust .
Etymologies
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rust + -like
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Examples
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But this week two teams will report that rustlike crystals in the meteorite are "chemically and physically identical" to those produced by bacteria on earth.
Periscope 2007
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Blood spattered the floor and machinery, drying quickly into rustlike streaks against the dark metal.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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She made a motion of recognition with her hand and turned away thinking how well he matched the surroundings, his buckskins melting into the fawn-colored shading of the earth, his red hair and bronzed face toning with the umber buttes and rustlike stains across the distance.
The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900
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