wortlike

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1. Like or resembling a wort

   Deadfalls clog the base of this falls, and moss and ferns abound, along with odd-looking two-leaved wortlike plants I couldn't identify.

   2004, Scott E. Brown, Pennsylvania Waterfalls: A Guide for Hikers & Photographers

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   Last Saturday, seeing the tumult beginning, I dismissed the students and tried to make my way home, but had great difficulty, because the field I was in was covered with wortlike ant-hills, and it was very difficult for me to keep my feet; […]

   1885, The Missionary Herald of the Baptist Missionary Society

   Like beer, the process involves pulling the natural starches from a wort-like mixture and then allowing yeast to convert those sugars into alcohol.

   2016, Timothy Sprinkle, True Beer

   Synonyms: worty