flap-like

Updated: July 21, 2026

Here flourishes that monstrous cactus-like growth called prickly-pear, with flat flap-like leaves resembling fingerless green hands; warped and brutal-looking stems looking like palsied arms. The cactus is abloom in red-hot poker ends. Orange trees and lemon trees and olive trees abound. Burlesquely-shaped palms, swathed in their overcoats, stand on the green lawns like waxwork figures.

Stephen Graham - Europe—Whither Bound?: Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921