Definition of Seedlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a seed or some aspect of one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seedlike

1. resembling a seed [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seedlike

seedful
seedie
seedier
seedies
seediest
seedily
seediness
seedinesses
seeding
seedings
seedlep
seedleps
seedless
seedless raisin
seedlessness
seedlike (current term)
seedling
seedlings
seedlip
seedlips
seedlop
seedman
seedmen
seedness
seedpod
seedpods
seeds
seedsman
seedsmen
seedsnipe

Literary usage of Seedlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the History of Dogmas by Bernard John Otten (1918)
"As, then, in Augustine's opinion it is contended that the seedlike forms of all natural effects were implanted in the creature when corporeally created, ..."

2. Osteopathy, Research and Practice by Andrew Taylor Still (1910)
"Where do the atoms of blood receive that degree of perfection which is the seedlike property of the atom by which when planted in proper soil it will ..."

3. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"Of four seedlike nutlets. Style long; filiform; two- cleft at the tip. Hab. ... Of four seedlike nutlets. Hab. —From San Diego to Santa Barbara. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Perthshire Society of Natural History by Perthshire Society of Natural Science (1881)
"(3) Agrimonia has one or few seedlike indehiscent carpels enclosed in a tubular flower-stalk which bears round its edge small hooks; this part breaking off, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... was shed as a closed seedlike reproductive 'body. The cones of Sigillaria, usually going by the name of ..."

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