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Sword-shaped

Sword-shaped \Sword"-shaped`\, a. (Bot.) Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.

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sword-shaped

adj. shaped like a sword blade; "the iris has an ensiform leaf" [syn: ensiform, swordlike, bladelike]

Usage examples of "sword-shaped".

Nearby, three-foot tussocks of sedge, whose clumps of sprawling grassy leaves looked sturdier than they were, matched in height by the straight sword-shaped leaves of sweetflag, grew between mats of spike rush that was barely an inch tall.

The fibre called New Zealand flax, which is procured from the long sword-shaped leaves of Phormium tenax, a liliaceous plant, has been much recommended of late.