单词 | hairlike |
释义 | hairlike (once / 131326 pages) adj WORD FAMILY hair: hairless, hairlike, hairs, hairy+/hairless: hairlessness/hairy: hairier, hairiest, hairily, hairiness, nonhairy USAGE EXAMPLESYour airways are lined with hairlike cilia that consolidate microbes and mucus and help move it toward the exit. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) They are the largest creatures to swim using tiny hairlike structures called cilia, billions of which beat in rhythm to drive the animals forward. New York Times(Aug 11, 2016) Instead, starfish have millions of tiny, hairlike structures called cilia that beat constantly, pumping seawater via “a system of internal pipes and bags,” Mah says. National Geographic(Feb 13, 2016) adj long and slender with a very small internal diameter Syn capillary thin of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section |
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