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Definition of Slitlike
1. resembling a slit [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slitlike
Literary usage of Slitlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the nose, throat and ear: For Students and Practitioners in by Kent Oscanyan Foltz (1906)
"The lumen of the cartilaginous portion is slitlike. The membranous tube is
connected to the inner end of the bony canal the posterior plate of cartilage ..."
2. The Secondary Xylem of Hawaiian Trees by Forest Buffen Harkness Brown (1922)
"The vessel apertures of such pits are either lenticular or slitlike. ...
commonly about one vertical row of simple slitlike pits along the radial wall. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The muscular movements of the body help to return the blood into a venous sinus
from which it reaches the heart by slitlike apertures in the latter provided ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1838)
"... reducible after long-continued pressure; the aperture through which it passed
feeling hard, defined, slitlike, and immediately contiguous to the side of ..."
5. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"present, but the sense-fiber of the sense-cell pierces the bottom of the cone
and enters the round, oblong, or slitlike pore-aperture. ..."
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