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Definition of Basketlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basketlike
Literary usage of Basketlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Robert Adolph Armand Tigerstedt (1906)
"Those belonging to the parietal cells surround them in a basketlike fashion and
are connected by cross ducts with the lumen of the gland (Fig. 105). ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... at other times they are marked with monograms or covered with a network
of -arving, the latter transforming them into basketlike ?apitals. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Employed in English in the eighteenth century to designate any basketlike
architectural member, especially capitals resembling baskets either in form or ..."
4. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan by Franklin Hiram King (1911)
"A similar network of strands had been laid upon the table before spreading the
cotton. Next a flat bottomed, circular, shallow basketlike form two feet in ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)
"The font, which strongly resembles that of St. Anne's, Lewes, in its basketlike
form mend ornamentation, is well-known to ..."
6. Geographical and Industrial Studies; Asia by Nellie Burnham Allen (1916)
"PEOPLE RIDE VERY COMFORTABLY IN SIBERIA IN THE Low, basketlike WAGON CALLED A
TARANTAS is shipped in refrigerator boats to London. ..."
7. Attic Grave Reliefs That Represent Women in the Dress of Isis by Elizabeth J. Walters (1988)
"... It preserves a pediment with basketlike cist again marked by wormy drill- work
and also lacking volume. 32. Lower part of two-figure relief, ..."
8. An Introduction to Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1910)
"in this basketlike structure, it is possible for the bee to spend more time in
the field, and to carry a larger load at each trip. ..."
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