tubelike
Americanadjective
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Scientists have struggled to identify the creatures that left behind the world’s oldest skeletal remains—500-million-year-old tubelike structures.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 29, 2023
When an adult wasp locates ash borer eggs or larvae, it uses a tubelike organ called an ovipositor to deposit its babies.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
When the landmark structure finally reopens, travelers can use it to get to the JetBlue terminal via the old tubelike walkways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2018
Nephridia are tubelike excretory structures that filter body fluid.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
The wooden floor of the room had expanded to a spread of cellular surface, ridged with broken, tubelike tunnels; pits and jagged cave-mouths.
From Beyond the Vanishing Point by Ray Cummings
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