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Definition of Hooplike
1. suggestive of a hoop [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooplike
Literary usage of Hooplike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse by William Youatt, Walker Watson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1874)
"... effected by a little strip of cartilage at the edge of each of them, wliich
may be easily felt with, the finger, and preserves them in a hooplike form, ..."
2. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"The sac presents a hooplike thickening, to which are attached free chitinous
folds or processes, and it is to the vibration of these that Landois ascribes ..."
3. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"... nature of its frame-work, not being stiff and straight, but consisting of
hooplike preparations of bamboo, covered with a flexible material, as cloth. ..."
4. The Territory of Florida, Or, Sketches of the Topography, Civil and Natural by John Lee Williams (1837)
"Trees are connected together by large hooplike roots, that rise high above the
ground, that is covered by every tide. Nothing will grow beneath them except ..."
5. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1904)
"... rolls hooplike over the ground with the rapidity of a whirlwind, till he
fetches up against the invariable cottonwood tree, which begins to fade within ..."
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