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Definition of Flowerlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowerlike
Literary usage of Flowerlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Concealing-coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of by Gerald Handerson Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer (1909)
"flowerlike though many of these brilliant headdresses are, there is not, I believe,
one among them all which really imitates a single flower, in minute and ..."
2. The Relation of Ultramodern to Archaic Music by Katherine Ruth Willoughby Heyman (1921)
""An inordinate, flowerlike sensibility" would be only the usual range of
sensibilities made more subtle or more rare. With Scriabin it was rather vision ..."
3. Zoology, Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"It is hard for one who has lived all his life inland to realize that such
brilliantly colored, flowerlike forms are actually animals and not plants. ..."
4. The City of Dreadful Night: And Other Poems by James Thomson, Bertram Dobell (1895)
"... thou art flowerlike, So tender, pure, and fair; I gaze on thee, and sadness
Steals on me unaware : I yearn to lay my hands then Upon thy head in prayer, ..."
5. Poems by Alan Seeger (1916)
"flowerlike I hope to die as flowerlike was my birth. Rooted in Nature's just
benignant law like them, I want no better joys than those that from green Earth ..."
6. Half Hours with the Lower Animals: Protozoans, Sponges, Corals, Shells by Charles Frederick Holder (1905)
"Some are merely great disks towing behind them enormous masses of pink fluted
jelly, as in Figure 23 ; others are simple FIG. 24.— flowerlike jellyfish ..."
7. Zoölogy, Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"It is hard for one who has lived all his life inland to realize that such
brilliantly colored, flowerlike forms are actually animals and not plants. ..."
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