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Definition of Feltlike
1. like a cloth made from wool [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feltlike
Literary usage of Feltlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"If the feltlike mass is growing on earth, pick off a little with needles, using
care to get rid of soil in the preparation. ..."
2. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"It is always covered by a thick feltlike fungus growth, which has been found by
... This feltlike covering of fungus, never found to be lacking in the scale ..."
3. A Laboratory Manual in Practical Botany by Charles Herbert Clark (1898)
"They grow in the water and on the bottom and sides of ponds and ditches, and on
the wet ground around springs, forming feltlike masses of a dark green color ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1912)
"like layer about 1 mm. thick covered by a feltlike layer varying in color from
light brown or grayish white to black. No pycnidia found. ..."
5. The Gabbros and Associated Rocks at Preston, Connecticut by Gerald Francis Loughlin (1912)
"Small anhedral grains of ilmenite and pyrite are also commonly included.
The phenocrysts are anhedral and grade into the feltlike groundmass. ..."
6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"... plants are not "densely white puberulent throughout" but only so on the young
parts, as emphasized by JEPSON, where it is indeed "close and feltlike. ..."
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