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Meanings of leaf-like in English

Resembling a leaf.

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Examples for "leaflike"
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The surface sheet in expanding under sudden heat detaches itself in large, leaflike layers.
Over Prairie Trails
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The nuts, with their leaflike involucres, are attractive in appearance in August and September.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At T...
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There sponges grew in every shape, globular, stalklike, leaflike, fingerlike.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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Or for the even more divergent cotyledons that eventually grow into tolerably leaflike form:
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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There, between its leaflike folds, I saw a loose pearl as big as a coconut.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
Usage of leaf-like in English
1
The Cynonycteris, or pyramid bat, has a leaf-like appendage beside the nose.
Brood of the Witch-Queen
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There is nothing to distinguish between the leaf-like feathers and the feather-like leaves.
Tropic Days
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The liver fluke is flat or leaf-like and from thirteen to fifteen mm.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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I was much more surprised with the behaviour of a green, leaf-like locust.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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L. Caulerpa sp., showing portion of axis with leaf-like and root- like appendages.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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The leaf-like structure effects a bias-free biocatalytic CO 2 -to-formate conversion under visible light.
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Dermoscopic examination showed ulceration at the center and non-typical leaf-like areas at the periphery.
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And as the car rolled swiftly up, these fourteen long leaf-like projections waved gently.
The Poor Little Rich Girl
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Then the ghastly feeling of the leaf-like fall began again.
The Sirens of Titan
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F. Polyzonia sp., branch with leaf-like branches of limited growth.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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You remember the tropical walking sticks that have queer leaf-like wings, do you not?
The Insect Folk
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I kissed her leathery, leaf-like hand with utter devotion... she could hardly lift it.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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Altogether there was a dry, withered-leaf-like look about the old man which was not prepossessing.
Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs: A Tale of Land and Sea
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Chara sp., axis with leaf-like appendages and a branch.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Goethe dissects and compares, trying to find the leaf-like basis of apparently diversified and disparate structures.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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As a result, the regularly leaf-like arrangement of the horny laminæ has been largely broken up.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
Leaf-like through the time