What is "leaflike"

Usage examples of "leaflike".

The rugs on the floor were bright red, embroidered in gold and silver with leaflike curls.

Ultimately not a trace of the former curvature is left, except in the case of the leaflike cotyledons of the onion.

He was lucky enough to have a window near his face, and he strained to catch sight of the leaflike boosters as they tumbled away and looped over for the long glide down.

The leaflike head took Clodius high in the shoulder, with so much force behind it that Clodius shot into the air and crashed, knees first, onto the road.

But his ears fanned out from either side of his skull in delicate, leaflike folds, and the tip of his bulbous nose curled over his mustache to touch his broad upper lip.

Maggie lay on what appeared to be a leaflike table while more branches and leaves had fallen on top of her and held her pinned face down.

It had consisted as usual of a damp mealy cake from a diet-synthesizer wrapped in two crisp leaflike growths from the salad-tree and a chunk of preserved allfruit about the size of his thumb.

The raised rib down the center, instead of being straight, was cunningly worked in a wavy, snakelike, leaflike pattern.

We remark the fact that in the higher of these agglomerations of condensed vapour, the clouds which float at an elevation of from twenty to thirty thousand feet or more, the masses are generally thin, and arranged more or less in a leaflike form, though even here a tendency to produce spherical clouds is apparent.

Then he walked quickly through the twilight, carrying only the razor, wrapped in a heavy, leaflike husk that Yual had supplied.

Jagged though it was, ever-inventive life-forms had evolved to live on it, their flat, leaflike organs stretched wide to catch both the nutrients that rained down from above and the tiny bit of light necessary to process them.

In it was a push-dagger, the stubby leaflike blade that emerged from between his second and third fingers dark with a substance that was doubtless poisonous.