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Definition of Oarlike
1. resembling an oar [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oarlike
Literary usage of Oarlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"On the contrary, rational students will maintain that inasmuch as certain fish
fragments are identifiable as parts of jointed oarlike appendages, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"These and others abound in ponds and streams, where they rest on their backs at
the surface, occasionally striking out with a vigorous oarlike movement of ..."
3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... as to offer little hindrance to free locomotion, and a few larvae with
well-developed swimming fringes on their long oarlike feet swim freely about. ..."
4. Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers by John Henry Comstock (1901)
"These are fitted especially for swimming, being long and more or less oarlike;
the tarsus is flattened and fringed with hairs, and the segments of it taper ..."
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