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Definition of Sword-shaped
1. Adjective. Shaped like a sword blade. "The iris has an ensiform leaf"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sword-shaped
Literary usage of Sword-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Lvs. sword-shaped, dense, spreading, green, margined and veined with red. GW 12:235.
... Lvs. large, narrowly sword-shaped, crowded, bright green. BM 6169. ..."
2. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1839)
"... sword- shaped, and elongated in their upper part. Stem-leaves alternate,
somewhat sheathing at the base. Heads of Flowers alternate, all sessile, ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"They are all woody, often arborescent, with sword-shaped or broad Ivs., mostly
crowded at the summit of the stem: fis. clustered in panicles or heads, ..."
4. Easy Star Lessons by Richard Anthony Proctor (1882)
"... monstrous sword, shaped like the curved sabre which Saladin wielded and so forth.
No doubt, in the infancy of astronomy, or the world itself, ..."
5. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Leaves firm, sword-shaped. Flowers variable in colour and form, ... Leaves
sword-shaped, slightly glaucous, purple at the base, 12 to 15 inches long. ..."
6. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"The generic name, meaning, literally, a small sword, refers to the sword-shaped
leaves common to this genus. 1. Portion of the tube of Perianth, ..."
7. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Stem simple, furrowed and 1-angled below; leaves linear-sword-shaped; flowers
axillary and terminal, single or by pairs, creet- less, dull yellow ; tube of ..."
8. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Lvs. sword-shaped, dense, spreading, green, margined and veined with red. GW 12:235.
... Lvs. large, narrowly sword-shaped, crowded, bright green. BM 6169. ..."
9. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1839)
"... sword- shaped, and elongated in their upper part. Stem-leaves alternate,
somewhat sheathing at the base. Heads of Flowers alternate, all sessile, ..."
10. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"They are all woody, often arborescent, with sword-shaped or broad Ivs., mostly
crowded at the summit of the stem: fis. clustered in panicles or heads, ..."
11. Easy Star Lessons by Richard Anthony Proctor (1882)
"... monstrous sword, shaped like the curved sabre which Saladin wielded and so forth.
No doubt, in the infancy of astronomy, or the world itself, ..."
12. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Leaves firm, sword-shaped. Flowers variable in colour and form, ... Leaves
sword-shaped, slightly glaucous, purple at the base, 12 to 15 inches long. ..."
13. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"The generic name, meaning, literally, a small sword, refers to the sword-shaped
leaves common to this genus. 1. Portion of the tube of Perianth, ..."
14. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Stem simple, furrowed and 1-angled below; leaves linear-sword-shaped; flowers
axillary and terminal, single or by pairs, creet- less, dull yellow ; tube of ..."
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