sharklike
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sharklike (comparative more sharklike, superlative most sharklike)
- Similar to a shark.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 14:
- The first reference to the shark is lost in antiquity; there is an aboriginal drawing in Australia that shows a sharklike creature in the act of eating a man.
- Similar to that of a shark.
- a sharklike grin; sharklike teeth; a sharklike frenzy
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 125:
- They wallowed lazily, nibbling bits of sea grass, their dorsal fins sometimes cutting through the water, sharklike.
- (taxonomy, of a fish) Cartilaginous.