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1675 R. Southwell Disc. conc. Water in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1757) III. 211 All the waters falling on the whole must vent at some point-like place.

1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. iii. xi. 496 The brownish punctiform or point-like hilum of grasses has been called a spilus by Richard.

1909 Bot. Gaz. 47 428 Leaves..all obscurely papillose, with a minute seta from the centre of the papilla, and closely covered with microscopic pointlike hairs barbed at the summit.

1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) xvi. 945 The essence of a neuron is that it is not pointlike but enormously extended, with a long axon and dendrites connecting it to other cells.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Dec. 69/1 The basic objects that furnish our universe are not pointlike particles, but two-dimensional strings and still higher-dimensional branes.