Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling a tube, especially in shape
WordNet 3.0
- adj. constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)
Etymologies
- tube + -like (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The first trocar, a long, metal, tubelike arm with a camera attached, went in through another tiny incision in the abdomen.”
“Bloomberg News Sapien is a steel mesh cylinder that collapses into a tubelike catheter.”
The Wall Street Journal: Heart Valve's Launch Is Painstaking
“Doctors can thread Sapien—a steel mesh cylinder that collapses into a tubelike catheter—from a small incision near the groin, through an artery, to the heart.”
The Wall Street Journal: Heart Valve's Launch Is Painstaking
“I also would suggest a hand-warmer belt that has a tubelike fleece pocket that wraps around your waist.”
“Its thin wispy tentacles waved about in a free-flowing fashion over its tubelike body.”
“I took my hands off the rail and just used my legs to propel me two at a time up the tubelike staircase, with its forgotten wallpaper and its unappreciated carpet.”
“Overhead, moving in a closely packed formation, were six squat cones, supported on dozens of tiny, tubelike legs.”
“There were also squat cones, supported on dozens of tiny tubelike legs; and there was one impressive thing like a giant praying mantis.”
“There was one red tubelike flower that smelled exactly of cinnamon candies, arrestingly.”
“We stepped forward, and the flashlights gave us a patchwork view of a large room out of which sprouted three tubelike passages.”
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