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Definition of Sticklike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sticklike
Literary usage of Sticklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"be sticking through, be piercing. sticklike ... (in counting) cylindrical,
sticklike, or long and rounded object (eg, canoe, vehicle, arm, leg, tooth, post, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"sticklike prickling in the skin of the whole body, in the evening, after getting
warm in bed.1.—* Sticking itching, especially when walking in the open air ..."
3. Concealing-coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of by Gerald Handerson Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer (1909)
"The ruffed grouse and the screech owl draw their feathers tightly to the body,
making themselves as thin and sticklike as ..."
4. A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898 by Henry Rider Haggard (1899)
"... to the hay that we took over by valuation on Baker's, which undoubtedly is
sticklike and mouldy, whereof he speaks in terms more forcible than polite. ..."
5. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"One would hardly imagine that an insect with such a slender sticklike body could
possess two parrs of wings; yet such is the case. ..."
6. Let Us Go Afield by Emerson Hough (1916)
"Farther on, at the first waterhole, perhaps three or four miles away, you may
find traces of an old camp, with dried bits of wood, sticklike, ..."
7. Half Hours with the Lower Animals: Protozoans, Sponges, Corals, Shells by Charles Frederick Holder (1905)
"... to see them when I knew they were directly beneath my eyes, so They have no
biting claws, merely long antennae, a long, sticklike body, and straight- ..."
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