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Definition of Ribbonlike
1. Adjective. Long and thin; resembling a ribbon. "Ribbonlike noodles"
Definition of Ribbonlike
1. Adjective. Having the characteristics of ribbons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ribbonlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribbonlike
Literary usage of Ribbonlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Angler and Huntsman by Thomas Hubert Hutton, Stanley Blake (1919)
"Description of Wild Celery Plant: Wild celery is a wholly submerged plant with
long, flexible, ribbonlike leaves of light translucent green and of ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Twisted ribbonlike structure with a 2500-A helical pitch. This was the more common
type of twisted tubule seen (x 80000). Fig. 6. The right- handed twist of ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"They are ribbonlike in tenuousness, and to casual glance they give the impression
of long narrow pennants softly waving in a gentle breeze. ..."
4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"... attached almost the entire length of the corolla tube, filaments glabrous,
ribbonlike, anthers with cell divisions white, the connective yellow, thick; ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"The nerve in his cases was discolored, compressed, and ribbonlike. In the following
year Herrick recorded a case in which, in addition to a dilated left ..."
6. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1877)
"... and on the rear walls light and shade break in sharp diagonals. James' pictures
display abundant leafage and ribbonlike tendrils; ..."
7. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"Bark a lustrous, silvery, pale yellow gray, peeling horizontally into very thin
ribbonlike layers, which give the stem of the tree a very lacerated ..."
8. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"2. Referring to a convoluted or spiral ornament: cartouche; spec, volute. S.
Referring to a ribbonlike strip, often bearing a motto: spec, ..."
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