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Definition of Shelflike
1. Adjective. Resembling a shelf (or considered to resemble a shelf). "Shelflike table"
Definition of Shelflike
1. Adjective. Resembling a shelf or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shelflike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shelflike
Literary usage of Shelflike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"... one large rib and sometimes a finer thread is between the primary ribs on the
shelflike area. There are specimens in the collections of the variety that ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"LESSON CLXXXI BRACKET FUNGI Leading thought—The fungi which we see growing
shelflike from trees, are deadly enemies to the trees. Their spores germinate and ..."
3. On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thomas Dowler Murphy (1921)
"We followed the river canyon almost due north over a shelflike road cut in the
hillsides some distance above the stream. It commands a beautiful view of the ..."
4. A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoölogy by Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1919)
"... has a sort of shelflike extension inward at the point where the body of the
zooid continues into the ..."
5. Aquatic Insects in New York State by James George Needham (1903)
"... thorax and bases of the legs very hairy; disk of the prothoracic dorsum produced
laterally at its ends into thin, shelflike, bristle-fringed lobes. ..."
6. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1902)
"The stigma forms a little shelflike outgrowth above the stamens, but quite out
of reach of any pollen which might be accidentally shed ..."
7. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"The stigma forms a little shelflike outgrowth above the stamens, but quite out
of reach of any pollen which might be accidentally shed from them, ..."
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