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geyserlike

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Etymology

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From geyser +‎ -like.

Adjective

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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.