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adj. - Relating to or resembling a mass of ovule-bearing or pollen-bearing scales or bracts

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Usage examples (14)
  • In birches, they resemble long, conelike structures, dangling down from amid the leaves.
  • Purple fruiting bodies burst from conelike structures that emerged at random from each shiny coil.
  • His weed-beating strategy included using young plants in conelike soil cells, called plugs, in addition to seeds.
  • At the end of the market is a tall, whitewashed, conelike tower, with black intertwining snakes painted on all its sides—the temple.
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