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  • adjective Resembling a basket or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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basket +‎ -like

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Examples

  • At the top of the ridge he built a larger gazebo, a curved shape that he wove, basketlike, out of saplings and osier so that its curved lines seemed to grow out of the surrounding landscape.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • I put on white nylon socks and basketlike woven black leather shoes.

    A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

  • I put on white nylon socks and basketlike woven black leather shoes.

    A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

  • I put on white nylon socks and basketlike woven black leather shoes.

    A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

  • Prof. HART: Well, Moses was born a Hebrew, and his mother, to keep him -- the pharaoh -- pharaoh ordered the firstborn killed, and she put him in a little basketlike boat, and he was bro -- rescued by an Egyptian princess, who brought him up close to the top of -- of Egyptian society.

    Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education 2002

  • Some dogs help with household chores by carrying items in little basketlike packs that can be strapped to their backs.

    How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000

  • Unlike the houses in Kyphros, a lot of those on the edge of Sunta seemed to have thatched roofs, although the walls seemed to be plaster over a basketlike frame of saplings.

    The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • By the time the roc returned, Kim had shaped a basketlike structure large enough for herself.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

  • By the time the roc returned, Kim had shaped a basketlike structure large enough for herself.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

  • He was easing a woven basketlike structure from the waters of an inlet off the main part of the small lake in the centre of the marsh.

    Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

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