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  • adjective Resembling a garden

Etymologies

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garden +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Of course we want a gardenlike environment, but people here have to make a living.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Of course we want a gardenlike environment, but people here have to make a living.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Of course we want a gardenlike environment, but people here have to make a living.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Imagine a combination of Chicago's mammoth Merchandise Mart and New York's Lincoln Center in the same place; imagine four separate theaters (one of them, with 5,000 seats, Japan's largest), all in a row and all clad in Brazilian granite, and imagine a giant, elliptical, "Glass Hall" for conventions and trade shows rising 190 feet above a gardenlike plaza.

    Tokyo Time For Vinoly 2008

  • For a very long time, this endless prolongation of bodily life in a gardenlike environment, protected from the tribulations of pain and mortality, was the ultimate image of the good life.

    'Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition' 2008

  • On the other side were gardenlike squares with tall, polished monuments and a variety of marble statues.

    Kissed By An Angel Elizabeth Chandler 2003

  • On the other side were gardenlike squares with tall, polished monuments and a variety of marble statues.

    Kissed By An Angel Elizabeth Chandler 2003

  • On the other side were gardenlike squares with tall, polished monuments and a variety of marble statues.

    Kissed By An Angel Elizabeth Chandler 2003

  • The landing party materialized in a beautiful gardenlike glade with a small pond fed by gurgling water from a brook.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • The landing party materialized in a beautiful gardenlike glade with a small pond fed by gurgling water from a brook.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

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