spikelike
IPA: spˈaɪkɫaɪk
adjective
- Resembling or characteristic of a spike.
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Examples of "spikelike" in Sentences
- The inflorescence is a spikelike raceme of many flowers.
- Inflorescences are erect, spikelike racemes of up to 50 flowers.
- Male flowers are located in leaf axils or in spikelike inflorescences.
- The inflorescence is a dense or open spikelike raceme of many flowers.
- The white flowers grow in spikelike clusters at the top of the plants.
- Flowers occur in leaf axils singly or in short, spikelike inflorescences.
- The inflorescence is a dense raceme or spikelike cluster of several flowers.
- The male and female flowers are arranged in separate spikelike inflorescences.
- The male and female flowers are borne in clusters or spikelike inflorescences.
- The erect inflorescence is tipped with a series of clustered spikelike flowers.
- In all species, the males are smaller than the females and bear tiny spikelike horns.
- Maize, millet, and sorghum push thorugh the soil with spikelike tips which aid emergence.
- Maize's large seeds and spikelike emergence gives it the best clod-handling ability of the reference crops.
- Aziz then turned to Yassin, who was sticking a long spikelike object through one of the holes he had drilled.
- Position these spikelike poles at about 30-40 cm intervals in a band about 2 meters wide for a barrier to elephants.
- Long stalactites menaced my head, and nasty little spikelike formations underfoot threatened to impale me if I should slip and fall.
- Another was the hoat, a puma-sized predator that impaled its prey on spikelike teeth that grew horizontally from its expansive mouth and flattened jaws.
- "Another was the hoat, a puma-sized predator that impaled its prey on spikelike teeth that grew horizontally from its expansive mouth and flattened jaws.
- It was now near the end of the day and the time he reached the first spikelike branch which gave him an opportunity to rest, the sun was preparing its pyrotechnics of Florida eventide.