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Definition of Buttonlike
1. Adjective. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button. "Black buttony eyes"
Definition of Buttonlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a button. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Buttonlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"When the specimen was laid open and the interior exposed, there was found a
buttonlike mass somewhat larger than a twenty-five cent piece, situated in the ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"The outdoor kinds are likely to be small, flat and buttonlike, while those cult,
indoors are usually larger and nearly globular. Fig. ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1897)
"Antennae pale brownish, apparently 8-jointed, but the joints obscure ; 8 short,
buttonlike; 3 longest, then 4, or these two about equal ; 2 broader than ..."
4. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by United States Bureau of Animal Industry (1911)
"... a splint nor a pathological formation of any kind, but merely the buttonlike
enlargement at the lower extremity of the small metacarpal or splint bone. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1897)
"This is a small rod fitting closely into a hollow handle having a buttonlike end
covered with flannel, so as to give the sensation of least pain. ..."
6. Evolution of the Plio-Pleistocene African Suidae by James Michael Harris, Timothy D. White (1979)
"Is has a simple buttonlike crown and is sometimes lost. Not. capensis: Three
pairs, placed as Not. ..."
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