marblelike
adjEtymology From marble + -like.
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Resembling marble stone.
- 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.2000 January 7, Albert Williams, “Person to Person”, in Chicago Reader:
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Resembling a marble or marbles.
- Physicists back then explained the durability of matter by assuming that it was made up of identical, indestructible, marblelike atoms.1996 January 26, Harold Henderson, “Twisted Science”, in Chicago Reader:
- They were diverse morphologically--rods, spirals, marblelike cells--but they all had the same kind of biochemistry.1997 May 2, Virginia Morell, “Microbial Biology: Microbiology's Scarred Revolutionary”, in Science, volume 276, number 5313, →DOI, pages 699–702: