flowerlike
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flowerlike
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Lord Grigon’s dastardly hobby is skeet-shooting fragile, flowerlike critters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
It depicts an orange-robed female Minotaur and a pale flowerlike creature greeting two children in black perhaps as they return from school, with a lithe spirit trailing behind them.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
Among the standouts is a Susan Goldman monotype in which a flowerlike circular form is overlaid with nine squares of bright hues.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2016
Eventually Dior cultivated his groundbreaking Corolle collection, a line of extravagant, ultrafeminine, and flowerlike dresses that Harper’s Bazaar editor in chief Carmel Snow famously labeled the New Look.
From Architectural Digest ● Oct. 31, 2014
Their beauty is that of popular song, starting flowerlike from the soil, and fragrant in its first expansion beneath the sun of courtesy and culture.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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