eightlike

eightlike

English

Etymology

eight +‎ -like

Adjective

eightlike (comparative more eightlike, superlative most eightlike)

1. (rare) Shaped like a figure eight.
   • 1965, August Aichhorn, Otto Fleischmann, Paul Kramer, Helen Ross, Delinquency and child guidance: selected papers

     ...with the contemporaneously developing notion about the eightlike shape of the crumpled wheel and the figure eight more generally.

   • 2006, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, empire, and nation

     For example, some scholars thought that an eightlike figure on the robe of the Virgin signified that the image was the eighth wonder of the world.

Synonyms

• octiform