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Definition of Grasslike
1. Adjective. Resembling grass.
Definition of Grasslike
1. Adjective. That has the characteristics of grass. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grasslike
1. [adj]
Literary usage of Grasslike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians by Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington, Barbara W. Freire-Marreco (1916)
"GRASSES AND grasslike PLANTS The word meaning ' grass' is ta. All true grasses
and grasslike plants, as sedges, may be called ta. There is evidence here of ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1907)
"Note Ihe arrangement of the long-stemmed leaves along the entire stem and the
graceful spike of feathery flowers, as compared with the grasslike basal ..."
3. The Physiography of the United States: Ten Monographs by National Geographic Society (U.S.), J. W. Powell (1896)
"When the lagoons behind the sand beaches have become shallowed to the depth of
ten or twenty feet, certain low-grade flowering plants, mostly of grasslike ..."
4. Military Geology and Topography: A Presentation of Certain Phases of Geology by Herbert Ernest Gregory (1918)
"A swamp overgrown with shorter, grasslike vegetation and having more or less the
aspect of a meadow will usually be much drier. ..."
5. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"Its gay, reddish-purple blossoms are almost hidden among its narrow, grasslike
leaves. It is easily grown in any sunny border and has an agreeable fragrance ..."
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