flaglike

English

Etymology

From flag +‎ -like.

Adjective

flaglike (comparative more flaglike, superlative most flaglike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
    • 1954 January, FJ HERMANN, A Synopsis of the Genus Arachis (Agriculture Monograph; No. 19), United States Department of Agriculture, page 15:
      On a single bush of Warai-gishi one usually can find some few normal single flowers, flowers with flaglike appendages to the otherwise normal anthers, petaloid filaments with traces of anther left, and completely transformed stamens.
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