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English
Etymology
From marble + -like.
Adjective
marblelike (comparative more marblelike, superlative most marblelike)
- Resembling marble stone.
- Synonym: (literary) marmoreal
2000 January 7, Albert Williams, “Person to Person”, in Chicago Reader:Meanwhile, Ann Bartek's semiabstract set--a mostly bare marblelike playing area decorated with straight and jagged stripes suggesting telephone wires—reminds us that this is a story steeped in a world-changing technological revolution.
- Resembling a marble or marbles.
1996 January 26, Harold Henderson, “Twisted Science”, in Chicago Reader:Physicists back then explained the durability of matter by assuming that it was made up of identical, indestructible, marblelike atoms.
1997 May 2, Virginia Morell, “Microbial Biology: Microbiology's Scarred Revolutionary”, in Science, volume 276, number 5313, →DOI, pages 699–702:They were diverse morphologically--rods, spirals, marblelike cells--but they all had the same kind of biochemistry.
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