Definition of "comet-like" []

• Resembling a comet (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "R is usually lost in the high surface brightness of the "comet-like" structure of the nebula, yet the nebula itself varies with no predictable timetable – perhaps due to dark masses shadowing the star."
• "This has never been seen before in a comet-like object."
• "The comet-like object imaged by Hubble, called P/2010 A2, was first discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, or LINEAR, program sky survey on Jan. 6."