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Definition of Seedlike
1. resembling a seed [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seedlike
Literary usage of Seedlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the History of Dogmas by Bernard John Otten (1918)
"As, then, in Augustine's opinion it is contended that the seedlike forms of all
natural effects were implanted in the creature when corporeally created, ..."
2. Osteopathy, Research and Practice by Andrew Taylor Still (1910)
"Where do the atoms of blood receive that degree of perfection which is the seedlike
property of the atom by which when planted in proper soil it will ..."
3. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"Of four seedlike nutlets. Style long; filiform; two- cleft at the tip. Hab. ...
Of four seedlike nutlets. Hab. —From San Diego to Santa Barbara. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Perthshire Society of Natural History by Perthshire Society of Natural Science (1881)
"(3) Agrimonia has one or few seedlike indehiscent carpels enclosed in a tubular
flower-stalk which bears round its edge small hooks; this part breaking off, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... was shed as a closed seedlike reproductive 'body. The cones of Sigillaria,
usually going by the name of ..."
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