grasslike
- a word derived from grass.
Example Sentences
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Each bulb produces one or more flowering stems above grasslike foliage.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024
Ethnobotanists in western Amazonia have often encountered piri-piri, a strange-looking sedge — a flowering, grasslike plant — reputed to feature many medicinal qualities.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020
It is about 24 inches high, grasslike, extremely fine-textured and about to smother itself in yellow blooms against red stems.
From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2017
Maybe it’s in tiny little packets here and there, hidden in the dying grasslike winter wildflowers, but we find it where we can, and exactly as it comes to us, while the days grow dark.
From Salon • Dec. 12, 2012
A single, long, grasslike leaf precedes the flexuous stem, with its quaintly arched and delicately fringed blossoms.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
