Lexic.us

Definition of Hairlike

1. Adjective. Long and slender with a very small internal diameter. "A capillary tube"

Definition of Hairlike

1. Adjective. Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hairlike

1. resembling a hair [adj] - See also: hair

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairlike

Literary usage of Hairlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1881)
"A. Vertical section near the middle of the dona) surface of the tongue ; aA, fungiform papillae; f>, filiform papillae, with their hairlike processes; c, ..."

2. Mosses with a Hand-lens: A Non-technical Handbook of the More Common and by Abel Joel Grout (1905)
"The figure of the entire plant is too small; plants are often found twice as large. Scapania «tt- Hooker). •LEAVES DIVIDED INTO hairlike DIVISIONS. ..."

3. A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoölogy by Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1919)
"hairlike processes short and numerous (cilia). Class Ciliata 8 (7). hairlike processes long and few (one or two to several). ..."

4. On slight ailments by Lionel Smith Beale (1880)
"Epithelial hairlike Processes of the Filiform Papillae. ... You may snip off a few of these hairlike bodies from your own tongue, or scrape portions of them ..."

5. Manual of British Botany, Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns by Charles Cardale Babington (1874)
"Pappus hairlike, uniform, in \ row. (11.) 10. PULICARIA. ... Pappus hairlike. (12.) 12. GNAPHALIUM. Fl. all tubular; outer fem.; central perfect. ..."

6. Bulletin by Virginia Geological Survey, Virginia Division of Geology (1913)
"Like the blue quartz of the Virginia and Texas areas, that from India is crowded with minute hairlike inclusions, presumably rutile, arranged with crystal ..."

7. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"... stiffened bristles, the basal half of these bristles grown with hairlike ... the bill beset with long, still-cned bristles, which are without hairlike ..."

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