Resembling fat in appearance, texture, or consistency; having qualities similar to fat.
Compound word from 'fat' plus 'like' (from Old English 'lic', meaning similar or resembling), creating a descriptive term for fat-adjacent substances.
Scientists describe waxy substances in seeds and certain plants as 'fatlike' because they function similarly to animal fats in storing energy, even though they're completely different chemically.
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