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flowerlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From flower + -like. Piecewise doublet of flourlike.

Meanings

1. Resembling a flower, especially in shape
   • I designed clothes for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts. 2007 December 2, “Fashion”, in New York Times:
   • The filter-feeding feather duster worms produce fantastic flower-like crowns of feathery appendages. 2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 135:

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