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comparative more ladderlike, superlative most ladderlike
Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing). quotations examples
How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.
1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, pages 243–244
The fastest moving components of capsular polysaccharides can usually be separated as distinct bands in a ladderlike pattern by gel electrophoresis...
1989, Elizabeth F Neufeld, Victor Ginsburg, Complex Carbohydrates