candlesticklike

English

Etymology

From candlestick +‎ -like.

Adjective

candlesticklike (comparative more candlesticklike, superlative most candlesticklike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a candlestick.
    • 1993, Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew:
      a great heavy, many-armed candlesticklike thing which sits ornamentally in the center of the table
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