What is "flowerlike"

Usage examples of "flowerlike".

A beard of green, glistening polyps hung below the chin, and orange flowerlike things wobbled in front of its eye sockets.

Clusters of the harmless, attractive, knee-high russet and pink-colored browsers could be seen standing with the flowerlike orifices that crowned their bodies spread open to the rain.

There was a single carpet on the floor, in flowerlike patterns of gold and red and blue, and a small table beside the chair held a silver wine pitcher and goblets on a silver tray, as well as a slim book bound in red with a gold-worked piece of leather marking Berelain's place.

Flowerlike sea anemones drew in mock petals when she reached to pluck them from the shallow pools left stranded by the receding tide.

In the spring it sends up stalks that develop gray, flowerlike appendages for a few days.

The first indications that life was astir are vestiges of comparatively simple and lowly things: the shells of small shellfish, the stems and flowerlike heads of zoophytes, seaweeds and the tracks and remains of sea worms and crustacea.