flaglike en · ADJ
Etymology
From flag + -like.
Meanings
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Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
On a single bush of Warai-gishi one usually can find some few normal single flowers, flowers with flaglike appendages to the otherwise normal anthers, petaloid filaments with traces of anther left, and completely transformed stamens.
1954 January, FJ HERMANN, A Synopsis of the Genus Arachis (Agriculture Monograph; No. 19), United States Department of Agriculture, page 15:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more flaglike | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most flaglike | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |