What is "fernlike"

Usage examples of "fernlike".

The fernlike trees they were using for fuel burned slowly and gave off adequate heat and hardly any smoke.

The Marines were belly down on rocky ground covered with something like lichen, peering through and over the low-lying, spiny bushes that grew between the fernlike trees.

Dozens of skinks had crept out of the fernlike forest and they all seemed to be charging directly at him!

When he lifted the visor, he was looking at a meter-high fernlike bush.

The scattered undergrowth was woodier than the fuzzy and formless fernlike growth on the flatland.

Growing out of the coral cliff was a lovely fernlike structure, graceful sweeps, branching and rebranching, pale pink shading to crimson.

Madoc observed that the hills were overgrown with gray-green scrub, and that the low land along the shore was covered with spike-leaved shrubs and tall, fernlike trees, and edged with a beach of sand white as the snow on the Snowdonia Mountains in winter.

Above the apricot trees towered thirty majestic palms, their fernlike fronds splayed like open fingers against the starry sky.

Every morning the ground was coated with a thick cover of hoarfrost, and the windows bore delicate, fernlike traceries of frost on the inside.

Water-monarch trees lined the stream below the pools, fifty yards tall, their long, slender branches swaying in the slight breeze, fernlike leaf fronds drooping.

So called because of shape and construction of their leaves, palmlike or fernlike.

And there were several variations of daisylike plants, and fernlike plants with buttercuplike flowers except for spots of red in the centers, like drops of blood.

At first I had taken them for lelts, skittering about the rafts, even to the fernlike filaments at the sides of their head, but these filaments, in the case of the salamanders, interestingly, are not vibration receptors but feather gills, an external gill system.

We motored quietly between dense walls of intense blue-green growth, broad fernlike leaves with water glistening on the myriad tips, thin helical stalks corkscrewing through the growth and rising dozens of meters above this moving, shuddering mass, the immense green stalks or shoots we had seen from the distance, sprouts the size of giant sequoias.

With their smooth, dark trunks, fernlike leaves, and delicate lavender flowers, the jacarandas pleased her in ways she couldn’t describe, only feel.