buglike

English

Etymology

bug +‎ -like

Adjective

buglike (comparative more buglike, superlative most buglike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bug (insect).

   Synonyms: insectlike, insectoid

   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:

     But the birds and the buglike things the birds ate weren’t the only things out there.

   • 2007 January 26, Roberta Smith, “Outside In”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He might orchestrate the curved lines into stepped, hivelike hills punctuated by dark tunnels where ornate trains and buglike cars or buses chug in or out along extravagantly banked roadways or railroad beds defined by further lines.