troughlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a trough.

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

adjectivetroughlike (comparative more troughlike, superlative most troughlike)

comparative more troughlike · superlative most troughlike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a trough.

    SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern California’s major utility, is announcing a commitment on Wednesday to purchase 550 megawatts of solar power to be generated by troughlike arrays of mirrors spread over nine square miles in the Mojave Desert.

    2007 July 25, Felicity Barringer, “California Utility Agrees to Buy Power Generated by Solar Array”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2021

Origin

  1. Englishtrough
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishtroughlike

From trough + -like.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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