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- adjective Resembling a
whale or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Soil, trees and fauna accrete to the zaratan, the monstrous whalelike creatures, which are being poachedfor bones and skin, killing off a whole ecosystem.
Movie Review: Avatar and a Comparison II « Colleen Anderson 2010
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Exactly the kind of woman who made Eva feel clumsy and whalelike.
Winter Bloom Tara Heavey 2010
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Last week the 585-pound Oahu native -- born Salevaa Alisanoe -- thudded, whalelike, onto Japanese billboards.
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As the raconteur described vast glaciers and rivers of lava, Sigur Ros added thumping bass notes and the haunting whalelike sounds of a bow rubbed across the face of a Gibson Les Paul guitar.
Nothing But Music 2007
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Oglethorpe tapped on one of the displays to reveal a whalelike creature with massive side tentacles that branched into rudimentary hands.
Old Mans War 2005
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Basilosaurus–wrongly named–is considered the progenitor of a number of the ensuing forms you name; but, Basilosaurus was already a whalelike animal.
Catholic Church Supports Neo-Paleyism? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Henna tattoos snaked around her fingers and over her knuckles before making their way up her arms and under the sleeves of a gold sari, where they were swallowed by the deep folds of her whalelike interior.
Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002
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Henna tattoos snaked around her fingers and over her knuckles before making their way up her arms and under the sleeves of a gold sari, where they were swallowed by the deep folds of her whalelike interior.
Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002
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Henna tattoos snaked around her fingers and over her knuckles before making their way up her arms and under the sleeves of a gold sari, where they were swallowed by the deep folds of her whalelike interior.
Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002
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Tertiary; in the marine deposits of the Eocene are found the bones of the Zeuglodon, a whalelike creature seventy feet in length.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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