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Meaning of "hair-like"
hair-like (adjective): resembling or similar to hair in appearance or texture. This term is commonly used to describe fine, slender structures that bear a resemblance to hair, such as cilia or microvilli
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The hair-like spines on cacti are called glochids.
There are usually several whorls of hair-like appendages close to the apex.
The hair-like elements increase resistance to reduce recirculation.
The ostiolar canal may be lined by hair-like structures called periphyses.
These hair-like laws were exquisite and looped around each other.
Spores are borne on the end of hair-like cells cortical fascicles.
Microblading is also sometimes called embroidery, feather touch or hair-like strokes.
We are the hair-like cells of the cochlea.
The nearly naked head and neck have a few scattered hair-like feathers.
Claws show hair-like spines and warty tubercles.
Whales lost their teeth before evolving hair-like baleen in their mouths.
Three or four hair-like filoplumes are present on the nape.
The side lobes have pale golden yellow hair-like tufts on their ends.
They also have hair-like spines that have to be removed.
A defining characteristic of the genus is the tongue, which is tipped with a hair-like fringe.
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Trichobezoars are composed of hair or hair-like fibers, such as carpet or clothing fibers.
Hair-like structure attached to a cell, used for locomotion in many protists and prokaryotes.
The collars of these cells surround a hair-like structure called a flagellum.
A pilus is a hair-like appendage many of which are present on the surface of many bacteria.
Two to five eggs are laid, which show the hair-like markings characteristic of buntings.
Anatomically, a discontinuity exists between the trichomes and the most hair-like appendages.
Eggs are laid, which show the hair-like markings characteristic of those of buntings.
Parts of nerve cells in the brain which look like small hair-like tentacles.
Plumed diaspores have thin hair-like projections that allow easier wind uplift.
Hair-like filaments called pili enable some bacteria to remove uranium from contaminated groundwater.
Tasmanian specimens usually have a few hair-like strands on the sides of the column.
The fossil shows remains of the soft parts, such as membranes and hair-like filaments.
The OHCs house stereocilia, hair-like projections which move in response to sound waves.
The larvae will move around in the salt water by using their hair-like appendages.
The first type consists of hair-like filaments covering the trunk, neck and head.
Fur simulation designed for large area coverage of short hairs and hair-like materials.
The whole surface is closely scratched with hair-like and somewhat irregular lines of growth.
The tiny hair-like structures absorb nutrients needed for survival and promote good health.
The larva has minute spines on the head and hair-like long spines on the segments.
Corn silk is the hair-like strands found under the green outer covering of the corn.
The body feathers appear almost iridescent due to their elongated shape and hair-like texture.
Each segment also has a bunch of hair-like bristles called chaetae which are made of chitin.
The hair-like filaments the bacteria produce carry electrons between the cells and their environment.
Your eyes contain thousands of capillaries, minute hair-like blood vessels with very thin walls.
Cilia are hair-like specialised structures that protrude from the surface of most non-proliferative eukaryotic cells.
This thesis studies the use of easily fabricated magnetic artificial hair-like structures as force sensors.
The crested gecko has hair-like projections found above the eyes, resembling eyelashes.
The Mysterious Man tells the Baker to feed the hair-like corn silk to the cow.
Some cells have cilia, tiny hair-like appendages outside the cell that allow them to move.
Leaves are very narrow and hair-like.
Bacteria such as salmonella have hair-like flagella that they use to propel themselves across surfaces.
Each tower has one flagellum, or hair-like thing.
Fine hair-like appendages on the cell walls of the anther smut Ustilago violacea are described.
This shiny brown stem can have many small hair-like roots and may also grow tubers.
The simple hair-like body feathers of both Sinosauropteryx and Caudipteryx.
