rodentlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

rodent +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

rodentlike (comparative more rodentlike, superlative most rodentlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a rodent.
    • 2007 February 20, Natalie Angier, “A Mammal in Winter With a Furnace of Her Own”, in New York Times[1]:
      The first mammals were small, nocturnal, rodentlike creatures that skittered around the feet of dinosaurs for 140 million years.