Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling wheat or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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wheat +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The hills were barren except for tall, wavering, wheatlike grass, and the occasional stark tree.

    Stalling 2010

  • Instead, fields of waving wheatlike grass stretched to the distant horizon, interrupted only by isolated thickets of slender, buttery-yellow trees that rose from the flavescent savanna like stiff whiskers on a cat's face.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • Tall cattails, already gone to seed, waved wheatlike arms from the edge of the pond.

    Wounderful You Mariah Stewart 1998

  • Tall cattails, already gone to seed, waved wheatlike arms from the edge of the pond.

    Wounderful You Mariah Stewart 1998

  • The hills were barren except for tall, wavering, wheatlike grass, and the occasional stark tree.

    Kendermore Kirchoff, Mary 1989

  • Taller than the buffalo grass, its wheatlike heads had brushed the stirrups of his saddle.

    Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982

  • Taller than the buffalo grass, its wheatlike heads had brushed the stirrups of his saddle.

    This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982

  • Taller than the buffalo grass, its wheatlike heads had brushed the stirrups of his saddle.

    Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982

  • Taller than the buffalo grass, its wheatlike heads had brushed the stirrups of his saddle.

    Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982

  • Taller than the buffalo grass, its wheatlike heads had brushed the stirrups of his saddle.

    Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982

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