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Definition of Riblike
1. Adjective. Resembling a rib.
Definition of Riblike
1. Adjective. Resembling, or functioning like, a rib. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Riblike
1. resembling a rib [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riblike
Literary usage of Riblike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Bivalve Shells by Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley, William Wood (1856)
"Obovate, brownish, sometimes prettily dotted at the apices, turgid, with concentric
reflected lamellar riblike striae, which are more prominent on the ..."
2. Reports ... 2d Series by International Labour Office, United States Tariff Commission (1915)
""The concentric bands are more riblike and are each ornamented only by one row
of spine bases, while the shell is more drawn out longitudinally. ..."
3. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"The four whorls remaining on the specimen are sculptured by faint spiral cords
or threads and axial growth lines, the latter almost riblike on the upper ..."
4. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1895)
"riblike cartilaginous rods appear in the first, second, and, more or fewer, of
the succeeding, visceral arches in all but the lowest Vertebrata. ..."
5. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... and not projecting beyond the level of the upper limit of the calyx; and 'hey
are situated between riblike processes of the upper margin of the cup, ..."
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