| 单词 | leaf-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleaf-like leaf-like adj. resembling (that of) a leaf; characteristic of a leaf. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > like (a) leaf or leaves leaf-like1688 leaf-shaped1798 foliaceous1828 leaved1834 1688 A. Pitfield tr. C. Perrault Mem. Nat. Hist. Animals 226 The External Surface of the Colon and Cæcum were uneven, with some very regular Bosses... These Bosses were formed by some leaf-like Ligaments. 1771 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. I. ii. 48 The angular triangular and leaf-like points of Antoninus's inscriptions. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cii. 54 Of her consuming cheek the autumnal leaf-like red. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times i. 17 The swords of the Bronze age..are always more or less leaf-like in shape. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 84 Her foot-step is leaf-like, Light as air. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia III. 353/1 The individual moss plant that one usually observes is the green plant with narrow leaflike phyllids. 2011 R. Fortey Survivors vi. 184 The flower itself is distinguished only by tiny, spirally arranged coloured tiny leaf-like lobes (so-called tepals). < as lemmas |
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