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

Its stem was vapid and of no diameter, and its grasslike leaves grew in whorls at the joints.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)