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having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)

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Usage examples (6)
  • The lancer shakes his head, managing to hold his blade against the lash-like tongue.
  • He translated bshot as “in the lash-like appendage” because it serves his hunch that the secret alien obelisks are located in a rift of land that juts into the Dead Sea.
  • The ocotilla or candlewood with long, lash-like stalks springing from a common centre -- that cactus, which, when dried, needs only a lighted match to set it afire --...
  • The units of the recesses each consist of a living particle, whose free extremity is raised into a kind of collar, from which projects a lash-like filament known as a...
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