Among these four plant types, restioids, evergreen reedlike plants, are uniquely diagnostic of fynbos. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
From the river, half a kilometer off, hidden behind reedlike thickets, boomed the call of some animal, over and over. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Its four main components are heaths, the Proteaceae, reedlike Restionaceae and geophytes (bulb-plants) including many Iridaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [What Happened to the Baby?] Reference
By some miracle he had landed in the top of a densely foliated tree, the reedlike upper branches slowing his descent before bending to deposit him, one level at a time, onto similar growths below, until he was finally dumped, bruised but otherwise undamaged, into a puddle of soft mud. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
There was a sound -- a faint whisper, reedlike and thin, almost like a long drawn sigh. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories] Reference
She has been innocent, and the black hands of jealousy have crushed her reedlike throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
Thereafter two more Kami are born from an elementary reedlike substance that sprouts on an inchoate earth. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
Placed between the lips and blown into with proper force, it emits a tone of pure reedlike quality, that varies in pitch, according to the size of the whistle, from G in the middle register to a shrill piping note more than an octave above. From Wordnik.com. [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference
No Roman watcher but knew well that play of moonlight upon the heads of the reedlike spears with which the ancient cavalry of the legion were equipped -- weapons which, together with their ox-hide bucklers, were being gradually superseded by the heavier Greek accoutrements. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion's Brood] Reference
Among the more interesting of these are blackboy, also called grass-tree, a black-boled liliaceous tree with a spearlike flowerstalk and reedlike leaves resembling fuzzy hair or a grass skirt (but in New Zealand the same word refers to a type of peach), and black swan, a descriptive term. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3] Reference
The small, exquisitely shaped head drooped slightly to one side, as though the thin reedlike throat could hardly bear the burden of so much beauty; the lips were slightly parted, and seemed made for sweet music; and all the tender purity of girlhood looked out in wonder from the dreaming eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Arthur Savile's Crime] Reference
Thou pulse of hotness, who, with reedlike breast. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
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