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🔫 Bullet-shaped 🐌 Like a slug
sluglike

sluglike

5.3
Shaped like a small metal bullet
  • adjective
  • /ˈslʌɡˌlaɪk/
translation icon : en forma de bala
  • The museum displayed a small sluglike lead projectile recovered from the battlefield last summer.

Examples

  • The engineer designed a sluglike capsule to minimize air resistance during testing.

  • She described the sluglike shape of the metal piece.

  • Some seeds have a sluglike appearance, making them easy to identify among other types.

  • The sluglike creature crawled slowly across the wet ground.

  • The museum displayed a small sluglike lead projectile recovered from the battlefield last summer.

  • The engineer designed a sluglike capsule to minimize air resistance during testing.

  • She described the sluglike shape of the metal piece that was used in the experiment.

Surface Forms

sluglike positive

Morphology

sluglike = slug (transparent) = slug + like

The adjective is formed productively by adding '-like' to the noun 'slug' meaning 'resembling a slug (shape or movement)'.

Etymology

Sluglike comes from slug, a name for a solid metal 'slug' or small bullet, plus -like, which means 'similar to'. So something sluglike has the smooth, rounded shape of that metal piece.