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Definition of Leaflike
1. Adjective. Resembling a leaf.
Definition of Leaflike
1. Adjective. Having the form of a leaf ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leaflike
1. resembling a leaf [adj] - See also: leaf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leaflike
Literary usage of Leaflike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"solitary or a few together on short pedicels in axillary and compound erect
terminal pedunculate narrow cymes ; bracts leaflike smaller than the leaves; ..."
2. Manual of British Botany, Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns by Charles Cardale Babington (1874)
"fertile spikes oblong near together subsessile lower one rather distant with a
short included stalk, bracts very long leaflike with short sheaths, ..."
3. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"In Cycas the female sporophylls are quite leaflike, but the male sporo- phylls
have lost entirely the pinnule character and have become grouped into a ..."
4. The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker (1913)
"Again, it was not the fact that they lived among leaves which made them look
leaflike, but it is because they look like leaves that they escaped being ..."
5. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"Spikelets few on the subulate and leaflike with brown sheaths dilated and open
upwards, with 3 or 4 flowers. Glumes narrow, rigid, acute or mucronate, ..."
6. Botany All the Year Round: A Practical Text-book for Schools by Eliza Frances Andrews (1903)
"The leaflike nature of 153. — Follicle of milk- ,, . . weed. tne carpel is very
... leaflike foin- carpel so leaflike in appearance that cle of Ja?an ™™ish ..."
7. Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"... therefore, morphologically, leaves, and the leaflike structures, stems.
But we have still further evidence, for the leaflike structures, ..."
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