reedlike

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reedlike

(ˈriːdˌlaɪk)

adj

1. (Botany) resembling a reed, that is, straight, upright, and thin or slender

2. resembling a reed, that is, straight, upright, and thin or slender

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Adj.

reedlike - resembling a reed in being upright and slender

reedy

lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

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She has been innocent, and the black hands of jealousy have crushed her reedlike throat.

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Which reedlike plant was used by the ancient Egyptians to make paper?

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Santos summed up many people's feelings about Pena's untimely end in the poem 'Geology' which she uploaded on FB: 'It's not even the death that shocked us/ It is the humiliation/ From a cement road that claimed your/ Ever so reedlike body./ You who trekked roadless mountains,/ Rugged terrain of forests,/ Swam deep seas.../ You whose bravery was legendary/ No match for the metals of a monster/ motorcycle.../ Farewell is not easy...'

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Perhaps it was my new, more womanly body with breasts and curves, or perhaps the fact that I was short and petite and seemed to stop growing at 5 feet 2 inches where most girls had sprouted into larger, reedlike structures, but all I knew was that I had enormous difficulty crashing the boards for rebounds.