tubelike
- a word derived from tube.
Example Sentences
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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
Propelled by high winds and muscular swells, a runaway barge carrying long tubelike steel piles rushed down the choppy Hudson River on Sunday afternoon, no tugboat steering the way.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2014
Just as we were about to engulf ourselves in this dismal passage, I lifted up my head, and through the tubelike shaft saw that Iceland sky I was never to see again!
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules
