Meanings of leaflike in English

The surface sheet in expanding under sudden heat detaches itself in large, leaflike layers.

The nuts, with their leaflike involucres, are attractive in appearance in August and September.

There sponges grew in every shape, globular, stalklike, leaflike, fingerlike.

Or for the even more divergent cotyledons that eventually grow into tolerably leaflike form:

There, between its leaflike folds, I saw a loose pearl as big as a coconut.

The warmth of the rum spread leaflike veins all through his chest, tendrils curving down into his stomach.

He climbed a supporting strut and pulled himself onto one of the odd, leaflike terraces that ringed the tower.

They swam with quiverings of their four leaflike arms, letting the opulent tresses of their tentacles dangle in the drift.

The general outline of the engraving is that of the spearhead in miniature, within which there are often little leaflike puncturings.

In the furthest corner of the wild plum grove she laid it down, gently stroked its soft forehead, and smoothed the leaflike ears.

Bolts jumped from the X-wing in steady succession until the TIE fighter blew in half, sending leaflike glittering metal fragments flying in all directions.

She left the two of them, throwing a kiss in Sam's direction with an old leaflike hand, and went downstairs to watch the television.