What is "reedlike"

Usage examples of "reedlike".

He was pointing at a plant with thick, reedlike stalks that glowed a vivid blue color.

Grasses grew on them, and reedlike grasses were thick around their edges.

Long, reedlike fronds stuck out every which way from the edges of the leaves.

The thick undergrowth of ballooning weeds, pitcher plants, and rubbery reedlike growths rustled and flapped, spattering water on her shins.

They were at least a mile and a half away, out beyond the lava where the first of the scrub showed as a wavering reedlike fringe.

Her posture was perfect: reedlike body held straight, chin lowered a respectful notch.

His voice was quiet, a reedlike piping much too high-pitched for a creature of his size.

All the time, he watched with annoyance as the tall, reedlike figure daintily lifted the hem of her voluminous gown and stepped gingerly toward him through the filthy rushes.

For a moment she saw herself running naked through a flower-strewn meadow where small, winged creatures played long, reedlike instruments.

For instance, he might be described as slender, skinny, thin, reedlike, Ichabod Crane-ish, lean, lanky, bony, scrawny, narrow or youthfully fit.

Cissian archers, so different from our own thick oak and bronze bowls, to the thin, reedlike spears carried by the Egyptians, which were deadly when thrown at medium range, but which were too light for close-in sparring.

Ultan then rose slowly and asked a blessing on the court and its proceedings in his thin, reedlike monotone.

About twenty feet from the toadstool on which the girl stood was a clump of huge, jointed reedlike growths.

Gorge was rough and broken, with great slabs of glassy rock slanting out of the rich alluvial soil that was thickly overgrown with reedlike grasses or tall, heavy bushes thick with sharp thorns.