geyserlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

geyser +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

geyserlike (comparative more geyserlike, superlative most geyserlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a geyser.
    • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 203:
      I soon caught my first glimpse of it: a pillar of spray rising geyserlike into the air and subsiding, leaving a cloud of mist hanging over the sea.