tegellike
Tegellike is an adjective used in technical writing to describe surfaces, textures, or morphologies that resemble tegells—small, flat plates or tiles that fit together to form a mosaic. The term is rare and not widely standardized; when used, it usually signals a plate-like, tessellated arrangement rather than a continuous or fibrous structure. Etymology is not well established in common dictionaries, and tegellike appears primarily as a coinage in niche disciplines, drawing on the sense of tile or plate with the English suffix -like.
In practice, tegellike describes patterns or arrangements where constituent units are discretely bounded and align in
Usage notes suggest that tegellike may be preferred when authors want to foreground the plate-like segmentation
See also: tessellated, tessellation, plate-like texture, tegula (where applicable).