caretlike

comparative more caretlike · superlative most caretlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a caret.

   And caretlike omission signs have been found on Greek documents dating back at least as far as the fourth century BC.

   1992, Patrick Huyghe, Columbus was last

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   On the succeeding segments the stem of the T becomes progressively shorter until the T is reduced to a caretlike angle with the apex inward...

   1947, Austin Hobart Clark, Ailsa McGown Clark, A monograph of the existing crinoids

   When he released her, Marian reached up and smoothed the caretlike quirk in his eyebrow and then put her hand back in his.

   1968, Maggie Rennert, A moment in Camelot