The folded spathe is of leather-like substance, rough, almost corky in texture; also variously marked and tinted.
The little centre has a resemblance to a bird's eye, and the whole plant is thickly covered with a meal-like substance.
The very smallest in the centre of the head remain covered with the farina-like substance, and form a beautiful contrast to the deep violet-blue of the opened, and the lavender-blue of the unopened pips.
This last species is distinguished by the receptacle being drawn out into a thin membrane-like substance, which rises between the carpels like the remains of withered leaves, and partially covers them.
A third tribe includes those which, like Tremella, are of a jelly-like substance; and in a similar manner all the numerous genera are arranged.
A peculiar starch-like substance, first obtained by Rose from the root of Inula Helenium or elecampane.
The hydrate is a black sand-like substance, consisting of very minute crystals.
The teeth are not bone, but a kind of soft, bone-like substance, called dentine.
The nourishing, milk-like substance is called chyle.
Here more acid juice is poured out into it, and it is churned by the muscles in the walls of the stomach until it is changed to a jelly-like substance.
The back portion of the eyeball is filled with a soft, transparent, jelly-like substance, called the vitreous humor.
If a mouthful of wheat is chewed for some time, most of it is dissolved and swallowed, but there remains in the mouth a sticky, gum-like substance.
Each tooth is composed mainly of a bone-like substance, called dentine, which surrounds a central space, containing blood vessels and nerves, known as the pulp cavity.
The chickadee arranges in the bottom of the cavity a little mat of a light, felt-like substance, which looks as if it came from the hatter's, but which is probably the work of numerous worms or caterpillars.
A peculiar flax-like substance seems to be always sought after, and always found.
It is made of a strong, parchment-like substance, formed by innumerable silken threads woven and matted together into a kind of felt.
A piece of cloth-like substance, the dried leaf of the Pandanus or some palm was used by all as a breech cloth--it passes between the legs and is secured in front and behind to a narrow waist-band.
A stout plank on each side raises the canoe a foot, forming a gunwale secured by knees, the seam at the junction being payed over with a black pitch-like substance.
The roof is neatly and smoothly thatched with grass, and the sides are covered in with sheets of a bark-like substance, probably the base of the leaf of the coconut-tree flattened out by pressure.
A peculiar flax-like substance seems to be always sought after and always found.
The chickadee arranges in the bottom of the cavity a little mat of a light felt-like substance, which looks as if it came from the hatter's, but which is probably the work of numerous worms or caterpillars.
The chickadee arranges in the bottom of the cavity a little mat of a light felt-like substance, which looks as if is came from the hatter's, but which is probably the work of numerous worms or caterpillars.
This mass of dough-like substance is said to be the material used by the entities--one by one as a rule--who wish to build up a temporary body.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like substance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
