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Example sentences for "fancied resemblance"

  • The name comes from gahuta'yi, "a shed roof supported on poles," and refers to a fancied resemblance in the summit.

  • The fresh-water mussel is called dagu'na, and the same name is applied to certain pimples upon the face, on account of a fancied resemblance.

  • From a fancied resemblance in appearance the name for spider, ka'nane'ski, is applied also to a watch or clock.

  • The name refers to a gourd, from a fancied resemblance of the long nose to the handle of a gourd.

  • Name from a fancied resemblance to the liver in the shape of the leaves.

  • An adaptation of flos passionis, a translation of fior della passione, the popular Italian name early applied to the flower from a fancied resemblance of its parts to the implements of the crucifixion.

  • Name from a fancied resemblance of the flowers to insects of the genus Tipula.

  • Defn: The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.

  • Passiflora; -- so named from a fancied resemblance of parts of the flower to the instruments of our Savior's crucifixion.

  • The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.

  • So called from a fancied resemblance in luster or appearance to the moon.

  • The principal occupation of these people during this month of the year is taking the Sooty Petrel, called by the Colonists the Mutton Bird, from a fancied resemblance to the taste of that meat.

  • The name arises from a fancied resemblance of the profile of the fish to a human hand.

  • From a fancied resemblance of the wood of casuarinas to that of oak, these trees are called `oaks,' and the same and different species have various appellations in various parts.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fancied resemblance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before noted; civil causes; cool slowly; fancied resemblance; fancied that; four generations; head lettuce; her that; high and; lose ground; make white; one large octavo volume; persons were; present known; pretty sure; requires some; said the young lady; settled down; sifted sugar; snow white; unconscious selection; volcanic mountains; who should