Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a scab (incrustation) or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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scab +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Pale green and brown lichen had grown scablike across its surface, filling greedily the curly lettered grooves.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Pale green and brown lichen had grown scablike across its surface, filling greedily the curly lettered grooves.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Pale green and brown lichen had grown scablike across its surface, filling greedily the curly lettered grooves.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Pale green and brown lichen had grown scablike across its surface, filling greedily the curly lettered grooves.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Pale green and brown lichen had grown scablike across its surface, filling greedily the curly lettered grooves.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • The fruit may feel like a bag of water, look rotten and moldy, or have a scablike wound, depending on the disease.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • There was so much fake blood on my chin it had developed a scablike texture.

    Pajiba 2009

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