grasslike
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
Lilies have small, narrow leaves all along the stem, but daylilies have a big clump of long, grasslike leaves at the base of the plant.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 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
Leaves: Exceedingly variable; those under water usually long and grasslike; upper ones sharply arrow-shaped or blunt and broad, spongy or leathery, on long petioles.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
