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Definition of Herblike
1. resembling an herb [adj] - See also: herb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herblike
Literary usage of Herblike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"In the monocotyledons the process of disintegration of continuity has gone much
farther than even in the herblike dicotyledons. ..."
2. Decimal Classification and Relativ Index for Libraries, Clippings, Notes, Etc by Melvil Dewey (1919)
"... .666 Otaheite gooseberry Phyl anthus distichus .667 Strawberry tree Arbutus
unedo .7 Small fruits, bush fruits and herblike fruits .71 ..."
3. Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic: With a New Discussion of by George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham (1896)
"... a very small, herblike willow, rising only a few inches above the ground,
found also on the White Mountains; Thymus serpyllum; Diapensia Lapponica, ..."
4. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"... a group of plants with shrubby or herblike stems, valued by gardeners because
of their large, handsome flowers. The peonies belong to the buttercup ..."
5. Webster's Elementary-school Dictionary: Abridged from Webster's New by Noah Webster (1914)
"Any of a genus (Acanthus) of prickly herblike plants of the Mediterranean region.
2. A form of architectural ornamentation thought to have been suggested by ..."
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