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Definition of Hooklike
1. Adjective. Having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold). "Hooklike thorns"
Definition of Hooklike
1. Adjective. Resembling a hook. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hooklike
1. resembling a hook [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooklike
Literary usage of Hooklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"(d) The hooklike structure that appears at the end of the flagellum is connected
to the bacterium. The isotope (black dots) is concentrated at the other end ..."
2. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"... out a hooklike process which attaches itself to the nucleus, and following
this the nuclear beak develops with the hooklike process attached to its tip. ..."
3. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... the outermost ones often narrow and greatly elongated or drawn out into a
beak, and more or less produced into a hooklike appendage at the base. ..."
4. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"... out a hooklike process which attaches itself to the nucleus, and following
this the nuclear beak develops with the hooklike process attached to its tip. ..."
5. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1860)
"I would here remark upon two points, viz., that the hooklike antheridia and spores
... in the less degree of differentiation between them and the hooklike ..."
6. A Dictionary of Automobile Terms by Albert L. Clough (1913)
"In clincher pneumatic tires the bead is hooklike, and adapted to fit under the
incurved edges of the rim. In some pneumatic tires for use on quick ..."
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