hairlike in English

adjective

resembling a hai

Use "hairlike" in a sentence

1. A stiff hairlike structure: the Bristles of a wire brush

2. 4 Seeds with 1 hairlike appendage at each end.

3. A stiff hairlike structure: the Bristles of a wire brush

4. Like some other whales, Blue whales possess baleen—stiff plates made of hairlike structures—in place of teeth

5. What does Cilium mean? A microscopic hairlike process extending from the surface of a cell or unicellular organism

6. It does this by damaging the cilia, tiny hairlike structures whose job it is to keep the airways clean.

7. In many birds, some or all of the feathers lack the Barbules or the hooks, and the plumage has a loose, hairlike appearance.

8. According to the publication Tropical Diseases Bulletin, Chagas’ disease, along with African trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness), yaws and filariasis (hairlike worms from two to three inches [5 to 8 centimeters] long), is transmittable through blood transfusions.

9. For one thing, studies show that it can slow down the action of the cilia —hairlike projections on cells that line our air passages and that aid in sweeping germs and dirt out of the respiratory tract.

10. The annelid body is covered by a moist outer cuticle that is secreted by the epidermis. Both earthworms and bristleworms also possess hairlike setae, composed of chitin, the hard material that also forms the exoskeletons of insects

11. Cilium definition is - a minute short hairlike process often forming part of a fringe; especially : one on a cell that is capable of lashing movement and serves especially in free unicellular organisms to produce locomotion or in higher forms a current of fluid.

12. Vorticella, genus of the ciliate protozoan order Peritrichida, a bell-shaped or cylindrical organism with a conspicuous ring of cilia (hairlike processes) on the oral end and a contractile unbranched stalk on the Aboral end; cilia usually are not found between the oral and Aboral ends