Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.
A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train.
Not only are these hairlike rods as sharp as needles, but the outer pair are usually barbed so that, once introduced, a hold is easily maintained.
A fine, hairlike filament within a glass bulb is raised to incandescence by the heat of an electric current.
The incandescent bulbs which illuminate our buildings consist of a fine, hairlike thread inclosed in a glass bulb from which the air has been removed.
This is not a passive nucleus, as in the plants hitherto considered, but is an actively swimming cell of some size, provided with a spiral of cilia (hairlike structures) whose movements propel it through the water.
Forming a part of the living protoplasm of the root hair, sometimes in the hairlike prolongation and sometimes in that part of the cell which forms the epidermis, is found a nucleus.
Some prolific plants, like the milkweed, have seeds with a little tuft of hairlike down which allows them to be carried by the wind.
Each taste bud consists of a collection of spindle-shaped neurones, each cell tipped at its outer end with a hairlike projection.
A cloud of invisible vapor rises from the top of every tree and a thousand invisible rills enter it through its myriad hairlike rootlets.
To me nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives, the fine hairlike rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
The tree's life is in the fine hairlike rootlets that spring from the roots.
It has a single hairlike organ or lash, supposed to be a locomotive organ, by which it whirls itself through the water.
The little creature which breaks from the egg (A) is a free-swimming creature surrounded by cilia or hairlike swimming organs.
As the lashing motion of these hairlike processes brings a constant stream of fresh water to the surface of the body, they first of all effect respiration through the skin.
Especially important in the easy and rapid locomotion of many unicellulars is the formation of fine hairlike processes at the surface of the body; in the broadest sense, they are called vibratory hairs.
These tentacles are always beset with hairlikebristles which by their movements serve to set up currents, and thus to drive minute organisms into the mouth.
Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hairlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: capillary; fibrous; filamentary; funicular; hairlike; hairy; ropy; silky; stringy; threadlike; wiry
