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
In addition felt could be cut and sandwiched together for flowerlike decorations and crenelated edges.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2017
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
Maud behaved well, I thought, to her mother, and well indeed for a girl who had mainly been taught to be flowerlike to every one.
From Embarrassments by James, Henry
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