Usage examples (13)

• Among these four plant types, restioids, evergreen reedlike plants, are uniquely diagnostic of fynbos.
• From the river, half a kilometer off, hidden behind reedlike thickets, boomed the call of some animal, over and over.
• Its four main components are heaths, the Proteaceae, reedlike Restionaceae and geophytes (bulb-plants) including many Iridaceae.
• But then something eerie happened: Essie began to sing, and the words, which even I could tell were silly, were transmuted into reedlike streams of unearthly sounds.