marblelike

English

Etymology

From marble +‎ -like.

Adjective

marblelike (comparative more marblelike, superlative most marblelike)

1. Resembling marble stone.

   Synonym: (literary) marmoreal

   • 2000 January 7, Albert Williams, “Person to Person”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     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.

2. Resembling a marble or marbles.
   • 1996 January 26, Harold Henderson, “Twisted Science”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     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^[3], 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.

Translations

resembling marble stone — see also marmoreal

• Welsh: marmoraidd