Flaglike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

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"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."

Etymology

From flag + -like.

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