Definition of Sheaflike

1. Adjective. Resembling a sheaf or some aspect of one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sheaflike

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheaflike

she-oak
she-wolf
she-wolves
she could be his mother
shea
sheading
sheadings
sheaf
sheafed
sheafier
sheafiest
sheafing
sheafless
sheaflike (current term)
sheafs
sheafy
sheal
shealed
shealing
shealings
sheals
shear
shear-cake
shear-cakes
shear centre
shear fields
shear flow
shear legs

Literary usage of Sheaflike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dana's Manual of Mineralogy for the Student of Elementary Mineralogy, the by James Dwight Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1912)
"Water in CT Characterized chiefly by its cleavage, pearly luster on the cleavage face and common sheaflike groups of crystals. Occurrence. ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... orthoclase may have similar shapes or may be fibrous and grouped in sheaflike aggregates which arc narrow in the middle and spread out towards both ends ..."

3. Voices of To-morrow: Critical Studies of the New Spirit in Literature by Edwin Björkman (1913)
"Evolution he sees not as a straight line, but as a sheaflike divergence of forms. Some lines come quickly to an end. Others stretch onward with constant ..."

4. The Roman Comagmatic Region by Henry Stephens Washington (1906)
"Microphenocrysts very variable, sometimes about 50 per cent, sometimes almost none; o. io to 0.30 mm. ; subhedral, prismatic, often branched in sheaflike ..."

5. The Roman Comagmatic Region by Henry Stephens Washington (1906)
"Microphenocrysts very variable, sometimes about 50 per cent, sometimes almost none; o. io to 0.30 mm. ; subhedral, prismatic, often branched in sheaflike ..."

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