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fencelike

fencelike

1 6.9
A line of posts or plants that keeps living things out
  • adjective
: similar a una valla
  • When you’re dead, you can have them thick, marine dark from the fencelike oleanders and a moon calling to white boards.

Examples

  • The children played behind the fencelike barrier, which kept them safe from the street.

  • A series of fencelike hedges divided the property into distinct sections.

  • Violet indentations creased Aureole's skin in fencelike patterns.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The garden was bordered by a fencelike trellis covered in climbing roses.

How Similar

fencelike
1 6.9
similar
∞ 1.0
dissimilar
17 3.8

Surface Forms

fencelike positive

Morphology

fencelike = fence (transparent) = fence + like

Meaning is directly derived from 'fence' + the productive adjectival suffix '-like' meaning 'resembling'.

Etymology

Fencelike is just fence + -like, where fence is a barrier that keeps things in or out and -like means 'similar to', so fencelike means 'resembling a fence'.