marblelike

English

From marble +‎ -like.

marblelike (comparative more marblelike, superlative most marblelike)

Resembling marble stone.
Synonym: (literary) marmoreal
- 2000 January 7, Albert Williams, “Person to Person”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:
  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.
Resembling a marble or marbles.
- 1996 January 26, Harold Henderson, “Twisted Science”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:
  Physicists back then explained the durability of matter by assuming that it was made up of identical, indestructible, marblelike atoms.
- 1997 May 2, Virginia Morell, “Microbial Biology: Microbiology's Scarred Revolutionary”, in Science‎^[3], volume 276, number 5313, →DOI, pages 699–702:
  They were diverse morphologically--rods, spirals, marblelike cells--but they all had the same kind of biochemistry.

resembling marble stone — see also marmoreal