Adjective: amphibianlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more amphibianlike |
| Superlative | most amphibianlike |
Sample Sentences
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In the absence of earlier eggs, it is hard for scientists to tell exactly when the amphibians crossed the threshold into reptiledom, for the earliest known reptiles are so amphibianlike that their assignment to one category or the other is largely a matter of opinion. [1964, Ruth Moore, Evolution, page 114:]
Adjectives inflected like amphibianlike
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From amphibian + -like.