buglike

Resembling or characteristic of a bug (insect).

Adjective

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bug (insect).
    • But the birds and the buglike things the birds ate weren’t the only things out there. - 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
    • He might orchestrate the curved lines into stepped, hivelike hills punctuated by dark tunnels where ornate trains and buglike cars or buses chug in or out along extravagantly banked roadways or railroad beds defined by...

    Synonyms: insectlike insectoid

Origin

From bug + -like.

Forms

more buglike most buglike