Examples of 'leaf-like' in a sentence
Meaning of "leaf-like"
Leaf-like is used to describe something that resembles or is similar to a leaf in appearance, shape, or texture
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An individual leaf-like segment of the calyx of a flower.
Flowers are borne in umbels with leaf-like bracts.
Is a muscular leaf-like structure helpful in swallowing of food and speaking.
The spadix is typically surrounded by a leaf-like curved bract known as a spathe.
The leaf-like formations may be arched when viewed in cross section.
I am tired of creating leaf-like forms in trees and plants.
The leaf-like nugget with the hole is gorgeous on both sides.
Plants always have leaves with stipules that are often leaf-like.
The inflorescence has leaf-like bracts subtending the individual flowers.
This, in combination with the colour and pattern give a crumpled leaf-like appearance.
Their wings have leaf-like veins that add to their camouflage.
Dicotyledons or dicots have two cotyledons and often germinate to produce two leaf-like cotyledons.
There is a leaf-like bract and minute bracteoles at the base of the flower.
The artificial leaves may comprise a plurality of leaf-like formations attached to a common spine.
Draw small leaf-like shapes on either side of the head to represent the ears.
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They are multicellular and superficially resemble land plants because of stem-like and leaf-like structures.
Physical means are for example lotus leaf-like structures or commonly known nanopins.
The leaf-like spring protrudes into the indentations created by the tooth pattern.
A mysterious, ancient organism with leaf-like fronds once flourished in shallow waters.
Their odd, leaf-like appearance and unusual behavior make them interesting to aquarium hobbyists.
The heart-shaped petioles form the long and flat leaf-like structures of the plant.
A cotyledon is the leaf-like structure that a flowering plant first produces when it germinates.
Lastly above the right eye make another leaf-like shape for the second ear.
Typically, the leaf-like formations are moulded from a synthetic plastics material or the like.
A typical Halimeda alga is a flexible string of flattened leaf-like structures often referred to as segments.
Morphologically, these leaf-like structures more closely resemble embryonic cotyledons than leaves.
Caspar Friedrich Wolff observed organization of the early embryo in leaf-like layers.
The sections of the pygidia are leaf-like in shape and also typically end in spines.
The leaf-like members can thus be bent in a random fashion during erection of the structure.
Another is their leaf-like ears.
The stem bears a leaf-like bract below half way and a single flower at its summit.
The pores are surrounded by elongate leaf-like formations 3.
They have unusual leaf-like femoral projections near the joints of their four walking legs.
Small body size and leaf-like appearance.
The epiglottis is a leaf-like cartilaginous structure that separates the tongue base from the laryngeal vestibule.
Prior to opening, the inflorescence is enclosed within a leaf-like spathe.
The leaf-like character of Sporophylle gives Dioon a special position within the cycads.
The organism is green coloured, and has a leaf-like shape.
Stipules form a leaf-like cup, enclosing the flower.
Stegosaurs had very small heads with simple, leaf-like teeth.
Four large green, leaf-like bracts surround each flower cluster.
The tiny flower-heads are surrounded by white leaf-like bracts.
These green, leaf-like insects are among the largest winged katydids.
The prosoma is yellow-brown, with a leaf-like mark on the opisthosoma.
It has shiny green leaf-like structures ( phylloclades ) which are flattened stems rather than true leaves.
The inflorescence, a terminal spike, has white or pink flowers and leaf-like bracts.
By this definition, some of the most leaf-like structures are cladodes, rather than phylloclades.
The leaf-like appendages, especially, show a developmental pattern that resembles that of the main leaf.
The carpel eventually forms a folded, leaf-like structure, not fully sealed at its margins.
Hence, many are microscopic and the large species have flat ribbon-like or leaf-like shapes.
