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adj. - Of an opening that resembles an oral cavity.

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Usage examples (6)
  • The mouthlike opening could easily swallow the logs and branches bunched against the mountainside above.
  • Objects of this kind, like this piece of bamboo, have a mouthlike form and vary from 30 to 60 centimeters in length.
  • His voice was neither hostile nor welcoming, and it came not from the mouthlike indentation in the furry face, but from the waving tentacles.
  • There were a few locals about, mostly Keklir, a bipedal race with short, powerful limbs and faces dominated by a wide, tapering snout with two mouthlike openings.
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