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Definition of Necklike
1. Adjective. Resembling a neck.
Definition of Necklike
1. Adjective. Resembling a neck or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Necklike
1. resembling the neck [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Necklike
Literary usage of Necklike
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 (1900)
"... the cat, and perhaps some other mammals, there is a necklike region just caudad
of the ... there is another necklike region cephalad of the ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"... the shape of the achenes is rather that of B. tripartita and its allies; but
the thick, necklike constriction at the apex of the achenes and below the ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"Some blocks of granite, volcanic rock, and sandstone are weathered all over,
except at a necklike portion where they have been broken off as at a joint. ..."
4. The Microscopy of Drinking Water by George Chandler Whipple, John Wymond Miller Bunker (1914)
"Animalcules colorless, highly elastic, and changeable in form, the anterior
portion produced as a long, flexible, narrow, necklike process, ..."