Resembling blood in appearance, color, or consistency.
Compound of blood (from Old English blōd) and like (from Old English gelīc, meaning similar). The word developed in English to describe things that look or seem similar to actual blood.
This word shows how English creates new descriptive terms by combining simple words—it's the same pattern used for hundreds of words like 'catlike' and 'dreamlike,' giving us a flexible way to describe similarities without needing entirely new words.
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