tubelike
- adjective
- /ˈtjuːbaɪk/
:
tubular
- The caterpillar formed a tubelike shape while resting on the leaf.
Examples
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It's the secondary wall that gives the fiber a rounded, tubelike shape and makes for easy dyeing.
Academic text (1997) -
Females use their tubelike ovipositors to pump tiny eggs into the flesh of ripening fruits and vegetables.
Academic text (1998) -
Drawing on West Mexico's tradition of joined figural pairs, the artist presents herself and the primitive figure as symbionts, his tubelike arm merging with hers and supplanting.
Academic text (2000) -
The long, tubelike pipe transported water to the village.
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We observed a tubelike structure in the laboratory that was used for fluid experiments.
Synonyms
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5.1
Shaped like a long hollow tube that lets air or liquid pass
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3.0
A long round hollow shape that lets air or water pass
Shaped like a tube used for carrying liquid
A shape like a tube that lets liquids flow through it
Long and round like a tube
How Tubular
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tubelike comes from tube plus the ending -like, and tube comes from the old Latin word tubus meaning 'hollow cylinder', like a drinking straw. So, tubelike means 'like a tube', hollow and round to let liquids or air pass.