How To Use Leaf-like In A Sentence
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_Phyllocactus_ in having the branches dilated into the form of fleshy leaves, but differ in haying them divided into short truncate leaf-like portions, which are articulated, that is to say, provided with a joint by which they separate spontaneously; the margins are crenate or dentate, and the flowers, which are large and showy, magenta or crimson, appear at the apex of the terminal joints.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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These are plants growing in sea or fresh water, or on damp surfaces, with a filamentous, or more rarely a leaf-like pulverulent or gelatinous thallus; the last two forms essentially microscopic.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
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The idea behind this pendant lamp, which comes flat-packed and ready to customize, is simple: leaf-like petals surround a central fixture and can be moved and arranged to suit individual tastes and lighting strategies — fan the petals out completely for maximum illumination, or stagger for more shade.
Jessica Mischner | Inhabitat
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More detailed morphological analysis of this extreme phenotype showed the conversion of stamens into very small leaf-like structures.
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The embryos formed young plants with small true leaf-like leaves and roots.
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Foliose lichens have leaf-like thalli whose edges are crinkly or divided into lobes.
Lichen
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For instance, the Aztecs prized the rich red color extracted from the dried bodies of insects that were raised on cladodes (leaf-like branches) of many species of prickly-pear cacti.
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These delicate fish are poor swimmers, but use their leaf-like appendages to help them blend into the algae and kelp surrounding them for protection from predators.
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The common honeysuckle, _Lonicera Periclymenum_, is one of these, and it is noticeable in this plant that the calyx remains unaffected -- a circumstance which Morren says shows the distinctness of virescence from frondescence; for, in this instance, we have the most foliaceous portion of the flower remaining unchanged, while the corolla and other organs, usually less leaf-like in their nature, assume a green colour; but this may rather be attributed to the axial nature of the so-called adherent calyx.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The organism has small leaf-like appendages.
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_Gesnera_, _Cardamine_, &c. In truth, the two conditions merge one into the other, as in some begonias, where the ramenta often become leaf-like and bear small bulbils in the axil.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Some species of green algae - the organisms from which plants evolved - were growing half-inch leaf-like sheets 450 million years ago.
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For another, they've taken to tarting up their lattes with leaf-like artwork carved into the foam with subtle tricks of the wrist while pouring the drinks.
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Twelve long tendrils stretched out from a central mountain, with smaller mounds branching off from the main stem in a leaf-like pattern and eventually tapering down to become one with the landscape.
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These delicate fish are poor swimmers, but use their leaf-like appendages to help them blend into the algae and kelp surrounding them for protection from predators.
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Each "cigar" has a leaf-like body at its base, and in the centre of the octahedron is a globe containing four atoms, each within its own wall; these lie on the dividing lines of the faces, and each holds a pair of the funnels together.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements
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Classified as phyllopods due to the leaf-like appearance of their legs, fairy shrimps ‘bloom’ in mineral-rich temporary ponds, reaching ridiculously dense concentrations.
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It's the circular leaf-like shape of the island that gives Antigua its undulating shoreline, within which so many of its famed beaches are nestled.
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From a decade of cobwebs and dyed glass she felt old leaf-like hands reach out and brush her.
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= -- In terminal catkins made conspicuous by the pale green, much enlarged, and leaf-like 3-lobed bracts, each bract subtending a dark-colored, sessile, striate nutlet.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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They have elongate bodies compared to most other living branchiopods, with leaf-like appendages that they use to swim belly up.
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The leaf-like form results from an acumination and elongation of the wings, which in turn results from a marked elongation of the rim of the fore-wing.
At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers
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For another, they've taken to tarting up their lattes with leaf-like artwork carved into the foam with subtle tricks of the wrist while pouring the drinks.
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A single flower is borne on a scape arising between the basal leaves and subtended by a large, leaf-like bract.
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Lamellicornia: those beetles in which the antennae terminate in a lamellate or leaf-like club.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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= -- Engelmann [373] pointed out that, so far as flowers were concerned, there are two ways in which they assume a green colour, either by a simple development of chlorophyll in place of the colouring matter proper to the flower, or by an actual development of leaf-like organs in the room of the petals -- frondescence.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
