pondlike

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adjective

Resembling a pond

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English pond →
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Meanings

adjectivepondlike (not comparable)
  1. not comparableResembling a pond

    Small streams are usually swift; large streams tend to be slower and often have deep, pondlike areas.

    1974, Samuel Eddy, James Campbell Underhill, Northern Fishes, →ISBN, page 49
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    Lake Nipigon covers nearly 1,900 square miles, but on a map it looks pondlike compared with the body of water it drains into: Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes, or as the Anishinaabe call it, Anishinaabewi-gichigami—the Anishinaabe’s Great Lake.

    December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic

Origin

  1. Englishpond
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishpondlike

From pond + -like.

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APA

pondlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pondlike

MLA

“pondlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pondlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pondlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pondlike.

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