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Definition of Headlike
1. Adjective. Having a protuberance that resembles a head.
Definition of Headlike
1. Adjective. Having the form of a head or a skull ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headlike
Literary usage of Headlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal KnowledgeEncyclopedias and dictionaries (1918)
"There are the dreary" "tabosa" flats covered by the headlike bunches of a woody
grass, abhorred by animals and useless to man, through which one may travel ..."
2. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1897)
"fruit large, in dense headlike clusters, not stipitate. A very peculiar species,
unlike any Mexican one known to me. Collected by E. \V. Nelson on the Maria ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"+- Flowers numerous in dense headlike clusters on long noted peduncles : »terns
erect, a foot or two hii/h : stamens inserted in the very sinuses of the ..."
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