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  • adjective Resembling a knob.

Etymologies

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knob +‎ -like

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Examples

  • They isolated H5N1's "surface proteins" -- knoblike structures that the immune system uses to identify an invader -- and attached them to a benign virus that could be administered to people.

    BIRD-FLU CHALLENGE 2007

  • He was wearing a blue-and-gray plaid bathrobe that ended just short of his pale, knoblike knees.

    Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003

  • He was wearing a blue-and-gray plaid bathrobe that ended just short of his pale, knoblike knees.

    Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003

  • "Boss ... circular protuberance or knoblike swelling -"

    City of Baraboo Longyear, Barry 1980

  • Then there were complicated machines with many levers and dials mounted on their faces, and with huge glass bulbs of peculiar shape with coils of wire connecting to knoblike protuberances of their transparent walls.

    Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Various

  • But now I saw a line of half-submerged stepping-stones, the only way of crossing in these days when there is no fighting or feasting at Thrieve, and no "tassel" dangling from the knoblike "hanging stone" over the great gate.

    The Heather-Moon 1889

  • A Minneola looks like an orange with a knoblike formation on the stem end.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • A Minneola looks like an orange with a knoblike formation on the stem end.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • [1] They are made up of a knoblike head or scolex (where most of the sensory organs are located-cephalization), a short neck, and multiple flat, rectangular body segments or proglottids.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • [1] They are made up of a knoblike head or scolex (where most of the sensory organs are located-cephalization), a short neck, and multiple flat, rectangular body segments or proglottids.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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