¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Footlike
1. resembling a foot [adj] - See also: foot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footlike
Literary usage of Footlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1796)
"... and fails in many Negroes : * the footlike powder (he adds) is not, as fome
pretend, confined to the rete ..."
2. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"... but the completed embryo consists of a well- developed root and a long hypocotyl,
between which there is organized a very conspicuous footlike process, ..."
3. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"Both pairs of maxillae are provided with respiratory plates ; the second pair is
footlike, and has at its base a glandular mass believed by Claus to be the ..."
4. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... produced into a footlike process at the base on one side, which probably
assists in keeping down the fruit while the germinating embryo makes its exit. ..."
5. An Introduction to Biophysics by David Burns (1921)
"(a) Movement is the commonest phenomenon indicative of life. Amoeba moves.
It extrudes footlike processes, pseudopodia (Gr. ..."
6. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"... but the completed embryo consists of a well- developed root and a long hypocotyl,
between which there is organized a very conspicuous footlike process, ..."
7. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"... of weight and service upon the middle digit. go, as Osborn showed the reader
could illustrate for himself by placing his fingers in a footlike position. ..."
Other Resources:
Afrikaans