Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
tray .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mary Jackson, a small, almost delicate woman with chin-length dark hair, walks through an exhibit of baskets -- some flat and traylike, some bowl-shaped, some lidded, even a basket meant to hold beer.
Basket maker Mary Jackson among artists included in African Art Museum show 2010
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I expected both sides to lie flat on his desk and reveal two traylike halves, but my guess was wrong.
Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010
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While Anna had feared seeing a whole lamb splayed across the traylike serving dish, the dish contained more than a dozen cylinders of rolled meat covered with a thick brown sauce.
The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998
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Sometimes a little boy will step into one of the giant, traylike leaves of the Victoria Regia, which, thus transformed into a fairy boat, he will paddle about the quiet bay.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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