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flaglike

flaglike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).

Adjective

flaglike (comparative more flaglike, superlative most flaglike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
    • On a single bush of Warai-gishi one usually can find some few normal single flowers, flowers with flaglike appendages to the otherwise normal anthers, petaloid filaments with traces of anther left, and completely transformed stamens.1954 January, FJ HERMANN, A Synopsis of the Genus Arachis (Agriculture Monograph; No. 19), United States Department of Agriculture, page 15

Forms of flaglike

comparativemore flaglike
superlativemost flaglike

Origin of flaglike

From flag + -like.

Questions about flaglike

What does flaglike mean?
Flaglike means resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
What part of speech is flaglike?
Flaglike is an adjective.

Words near flaglike in the dictionary

  1. Flaglers
  2. flagless
  3. flaglessness
  4. flaglet
  5. flaglets
  6. flaglike
  7. flaglore
  8. flagmaker
  9. flagmakers
  10. flagmaking
  11. flagman

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