Noun : a rose leaf. ,silver leaf. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to leaf through a book. From Dictionary.com.
Throughout their length, the culms are usually sheathed with a leaflike husk. From Wordnik.com. [4 Questions and Answers] Reference
The nuts, with their leaflike involucres, are attractive in appearance in August and September. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference
Infected with the yellows organism, these flowers turn into distorted, green leaflike structures. From Wordnik.com. [E-China-See-Ya~A Public Service Announcement « Fairegarden] Reference
He climbed a supporting strut and pulled himself onto one of the odd, leaflike terraces that ringed the tower. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
Secreted by its cinnamon-colored, leaflike plumage, a woodcock may be right under your nose before you see it. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Its lining is made up of millions of leaflike structures called villi, which in turn are covered with millions of microvilli. From Wordnik.com. [Gut Reactions] Reference
Then he walked quickly through the twilight, carrying only the razor, wrapped in a heavy, leaflike husk that Yual had supplied. From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
The general outline of the engraving is that of the spearhead in miniature, within which there are often little leaflike puncturings. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
The cerebellum consists of a large mass of closely packed folia, which are bundles of nerve cells described in the literature as leaflike. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Thematic Worldbuilding in The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Leaf Man Trough And Fungi « Fairegarden] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The leaflike drug that users chew is enormously popular in the. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
Mosses have green, leaflike growths arranged around a central stalk. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The following are quite small, basin-shaped, decorated with leaflike figures. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428] Reference
The clincher was the flattened, leaflike stem from which the flowers emerged. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
The leaflike drug that users chew is enormously popular in the Middle Eastern country. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
The wings have since evolved into the leaflike structure on its back, which serves to hide the skitter leaf through mimicry. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
The bright colors of the paintbrush are not actually its flowers-they are bracts, or leaflike structures, around the flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference
In the furthest corner of the wild plum grove she laid it down, gently stroked its soft forehead, and smoothed the leaflike ears. From Wordnik.com. [Old Indian Days] Reference
Though black and leaflike when mature, it is, in its beginning, like a disk of tiny round green spots, and from this it gets its name. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador] Reference
When I looked down I saw that the tail was horribly disfigured, sliced into several leaflike segments by the blades of an outboard motor. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
The antlers of the moose formed a huge, fantastic, flatly palmated or leaflike structure, separating into sharp prongs along the edges, and spreading more than four feet from tip to tip. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
We remark the fact that in the higher of these agglomerations of condensed vapour, the clouds which float at an elevation of from twenty to thirty thousand feet or more, the masses are generally thin, and arranged more or less in a leaflike form, though even here a tendency to produce spherical clouds is apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
Beans and marigolds are quicker, but my lilacs also confirmed what remarkable things could come from those brown, parchment-leaflike seeds. no stranger to the natural world, said it perfectly: "I have great faith in a seed. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
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