Definition of "marblelike"

Meanwhile, Ann Bartek's semiabstract set--a mostly bare marblelike playing area decorated with straight and jagged stripes suggesting telephone wires—reminds us that this is a story steeped in a world-changing technological revolution.

2000 January 7, Albert Williams, “Person to Person”, in Chicago Reader‎

Physicists back then explained the durability of matter by assuming that it was made up of identical, indestructible, marblelike atoms.

1996 January 26, Harold Henderson, “Twisted Science”, in Chicago Reader‎

They were diverse morphologically--rods, spirals, marblelike cells--but they all had the same kind of biochemistry.

1997 May 2, Virginia Morell, “Microbial Biology: Microbiology's Scarred Revolutionary”, in Science‎, volume 276, number 5313, pages 699–702