Leaflike

Word LEAFLIKE
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Also include the lyrical "Hunter, Come Home" by Richard McKenna (who went on to fame as the author of "The Sand Pebbles"), which describes fluttering, leaflike "phytos" and other weird creatures. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The cerebellum consists of a large mass of closely packed folia, which are bundles of nerve cells described in the literature as leaflike. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Russian Mammoth: The petals are withering, but the leaflike bracts are still green and the seed has yet to ripen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Infected with the yellows organism, these flowers turn into distorted, green leaflike structures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Later, in her audience chamber, "the walls were hung with tapestries in lush twining, leaflike patterns of blue and gold," again giving the impression of her being tangled, trapped. ❋ Victoria Janssen (2009)

Its lining is made up of millions of leaflike structures called villi, which in turn are covered with millions of microvilli. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The lichen shown above are two different forms, folicose form, which produce leaflike folds above the limb and fruiticose lichens, which produce highly branched structures with hair or fingerlike projections. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He climbed a supporting strut and pulled himself onto one of the odd, leaflike terraces that ringed the tower. ❋ Dietz, William (2003)

It had a flat nose and leaflike ears, and its mouth disclosed delicate, needle-sharp teeth. ❋ Nancy Farmer (2002)

Then he walked quickly through the twilight, carrying only the razor, wrapped in a heavy, leaflike husk that Yual had supplied. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1995)

Throughout their length, the culms are usually sheathed with a leaflike husk. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Secreted by its cinnamon-colored, leaflike plumage, a woodcock may be right under your nose before you see it. ❋ Janine M. Benyus (1989)

Sometimes at night, when it threw on us its leaflike shadows, he would stand me by the bed, and turn me here and there to take the light. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)

The flower-stalks are nearly of the same height as the leaves, three-cornered, hard, and leafless, with the exception of five or six leaflike bracts at the top, from the midst of which are produced the spikelets of flowers, which are of a pale-yellow color. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

The surface sheet in expanding under sudden heat detaches itself in large, leaflike layers. ❋ Frederick Philip Grove (N/A)

The nuts, with their leaflike involucres, are attractive in appearance in August and September. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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