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Lash-like   /læʃ-laɪk/   Listen
Lash-like

adjective
1.
Having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum).  Synonyms: flagellate, flagellated, whiplike.






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"Lash-like" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, of this noble tree-waving and tree-music will you see or hear in the strictly alpine portion of the forests. The burly Juniper whose girth sometimes more than equals its height, is about as rigid as the rocks on which it grows. The slender lash-like sprays of the Dwarf Pine stream out in wavering ripples, but the tallest and slenderest are far too unyielding to wave even in the heaviest gales. They only shake in quick, short vibrations. The Hemlock Spruce, however, and the Mountain ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)



Words linked to "Lash-like" :   whiplike, lash, flagellated



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