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clawlike

adj

Etymology

From claw + -like.

  1. inherited from *klawēn✻
  2. inherited from clawian
  3. inherited from *klawjaną✻
  4. inherited from *klauwjan✻
  5. inherited from clawan
  6. inherited from clawen
  7. suffixed as clawlike — “claw + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a claw.

    • The tool, a clawlike gripper less than a millimeter in diameter, could grab cells from tissue for a biopsy, for example.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA