flowerlike

adj

flowerlike

adj

Etymology From flower + -like. Piecewise doublet of flourlike.

1

Resembling a flower, especially in shape

  • The filter-feeding feather duster worms produce fantastic flower-like crowns of feathery appendages.2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 135:
  • I designed clothes for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts.2007 December 2, “Fashion”, in New York Times:

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