Meanings
adjectivedoughlike (comparative more doughlike, superlative most doughlike)
comparative more doughlike · superlative most doughlike
- Resembling dough.
When the Turritopsis medusa rejuvenates, muscle cells, for example, turn certain genes on or off, essentially unbaking the cells and reverting them to doughlike stem cells.
2017, Juli Berwald, “Life’s Limits”, in Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 153Synonyms: doughy
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveResembling dough.
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Translations
German teigartig
- teigartigresembling dough
Russian тестообра́зный
- тестообра́зный (testoobráznyj)resembling dough
Ukrainian тістоподі́бний
- тістоподі́бний (tistopodíbnyj)resembling dough
Welsh toesaidd, toeslyd
- toesaiddresembling dough
- toeslydresembling dough
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