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Definition of Fingerlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a finger. "Digitate leaves of the horse chestnut"
Definition of Fingerlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a finger, especially in shape ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fingerlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fingerlike
Literary usage of Fingerlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Weeds of the North Central States edited by Lloyd M. Wax, Richard S. Fawcett, Duane Isely (1999)
"Stems not terminated by a single spike; inflorescences various — if spikelike,
the spikes borne in leaf axils along stem or clustered together in fingerlike ..."
2. A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems by George William Hunter (1914)
"The inner lining of part of the food tube is thrown into millions of little
fingerlike projections which look somewhat, in size at least, like root hairs. ..."
3. Elementary Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene for Higher Grammar Grades by Winfield Scott Hall (1900)
"Notice the fingerlike projections (k) which cover the whole surface of the mucous
... Between the fingerlike projections or villi there are little glands ..."
4. Elementary Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene: For Higher Grammar Grades by Winfield Scott Hall (1911)
"Notice the fingerlike projections (k) which cover the whole surface of the mucous
... Between the fingerlike projections or villi there are little glands ..."
5. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, John Albert Macy, Annie Sullivan (1905)
"We bought a lily and set it in a sunny window. Very soon the green, pointed buds
showed signs of opening. The slender, fingerlike ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"... where its base expanded in the form of fingerlike absorbent organs. Briefly its
characters may be summarized as follows ..."
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