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Chisel-like   /tʃˈɪzəl-laɪk/   Listen
Chisel-like

adjective
1.
Resembling a chisel.






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"Chisel-like" Quotes from Famous Books



... cotyledons are likewise straight; they, however, terminate in a sharp crest, which is white and somewhat indurated; and this structure obviously facilitates their emergence from the soil: the first true leaves escape from the sheath through a slit beneath the chisel-like apex and at right angles to it. In the case of the onion (Allium cepa) we again meet with an arch; the leaf-like cotyledon being abruptly bowed, when it breaks through the ground, with the apex still enclosed within the seed-coats. The crown of the arch, as previously described, is developed ...
— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin



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