Meanings
adjectiveflowerlike (comparative more flowerlike, superlative most flowerlike)
comparative more flowerlike · superlative most flowerlike
- Resembling a flower, especially in shape
The filter-feeding feather duster worms produce fantastic flower-like crowns of feathery appendages.
2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 1351 more example
I designed clothes for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts.
2007 December 2, “Fashion”, in New York Times
Origin
From flower + -like. Piecewise doublet of flourlike.
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