straplike


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Adj.1.straplike - long and narrow like a strap; "straplike leaves"
narrow - not wide; "a narrow bridge"; "a narrow line across the page"
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They have the capacity to curl up their straplike petals in a light frost -- but once fully open the blooms can perish with a hard freeze.
It hopped onto the pandanus plant, grabbed the spiked edge of one of the long straplike leaves and began a series of ripping motions.
The clivia is a handsome houseplant whose leaves are evergreen and straplike.
13c); endosoma with straplike basal sclerite, tapered distally, smooth (without serrations) (Fig.
The aerial parts consist of woody, straplike leaves.
Egregia menziesii (the feather-boa kelp) is a robust intertidal seaweed that has a simple growth form characterized by a straplike morphology.
high, including the inflorescence: Leaf-rosette 1 m diameter; Leaves about 50, broad straplike; not very wide at the base, the end abupt with a short bent over tip, the sheath dark purple brown, almost black brown, the blade light grey green, unclear darker green fenestrated, both sides smooth and shiny, ca.
Unlike the handles on contemporary Chinese miniature bottles or the similar but finer celadons produced at the Kalong kilns in Thailand, those on Si Satchanalai celadons could more often be described as straplike coils than as true rings, and they tend to be slightly irregular, even on the finest of wares.
Its small, narrow, straplike, blue-green leaves die away in early spring.
Sessile, cauline leaves (sometimes improperly called "ligules" on Gunnera): (0) absent; (1) like other leaves, but smaller and sessile; (2) small, straplike; (3) small, shieldlike; (4) budlike; (5) pinnatifid to laciniate.
Bulbs, fruit trees and hellebores are all flowering away, showing their spring colours, but wulfenii is another kettle of fish altogether - most unspring-like with its 3ft tall spikes of limegreen/yellow flowers, set off by grey/green straplike leaves.
The handles still curve high above the rim, but are now straplike with slightly flanged edges and are set somewhat closer (about 90[degrees] apart).