Definition of Fanlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a fan.

Similar to: Broad, Wide

Definition of Fanlike

1. a. Resembling a fan;

Definition of Fanlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a fan (hand-held cooling device). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fanlike

1. resembling a fan [adj]

Medical Definition of Fanlike

1. Resembling a fan; specifically, folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanlike

fangs
fangy
fanion
fanions
fanjet
fanjets
fank
fankle
fankled
fankles
fankling
fanks
fanless
fanlight
fanlights
fanlike (current term)
fanlisting
fanlistings
fanmade
fanned
fannel
fannell
fannells
fannels
fanner
fanners
fannerved
fannies
fanning
fannings

Literary usage of Fanlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Panama to Patagonia: The Isthmian Canal and the West Coast Countries to by Charles Melville Pepper (1906)
"... and Other Statues — The Capital a fanlike City — Public Edifices — Dwellings of the Poor — Impression of the People at the Celebration of Corpus Christi ..."

2. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"... cough loose, full and deep, sounding as if the whole parenchyma of the lung were softened ; circumscribed redness of face ; fanlike motion of nostrils. ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Luther Holden (1878)
"On every side it gives off bundles of fibres, which diverge in all directions, and in a fanlike manner, towards the surface, through the several gray layers ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Luther Holden (1878)
"On every side it gives off bundles of fibres, which diverge in all directions, and in a fanlike manner, towards the surface, through the several gray layers ..."

5. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1869)
"On every side it gives off bundles of fibres, which diverge in all directions, and in a fanlike manner, toward the surface through the several frav layers. ..."

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