pondlike
English
Etymology
pond + -like
Adjective
pondlike (not comparable)
- Resembling a pond
- 1974, Samuel Eddy & James Campbell Underhill, Northern Fishes, →ISBN, page 49:
- Small streams are usually swift; large streams tend to be slower and often have deep, pondlike areas.
- December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic:
- 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.
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