hooklike
- adjective
- /ˈhʊkˌlaɪk/
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en forma de gancho
- An octopus has hooklike suckers on its tentacles that help it hold onto surfaces and prey.
Examples
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The bird used its hooklike beak to grasp the fish tightly as it swooped down to catch its meal.
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Also previously concealed was the small, Popeye-ish, blue tattoo situated at the top of his right arm, just at the shoulder joining the words "U.S. Navy" inscribed between the hooklike arms of a shadowy little anchor and running along the hypotenuse of the deltoid muscle.
Fiction book (2001) -
Other native predators were the Phorusrhacidae, or "terror birds": at least one 15-million-year-old species of these carnivorous ground birds towered nine to ten feet tall and sported a sharp, hooklike beak as part of its two-foot-long head.
Academic text (2009) -
The design of the tool featured a hooklike end that allowed it to secure objects without slipping.
Synonyms
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Having a shape like a small curved hook
With a curved end that bends back
Having a sharp curved shape like a hook
Antonyms
How Hooked
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hooklike is simply hook + -like, meaning 'like a hook'. Think of a hook's curved end that can catch or hold things, so hooklike describes something with that shape that can grip or hold objects.