Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a tube, especially in shape

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  • adjective constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)

Etymologies

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tube +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Bloomberg News Sapien is a steel mesh cylinder that collapses into a tubelike catheter.

    Heart Valve's Launch Is Painstaking Christopher Weaver 2012

  • I also would suggest a hand-warmer belt that has a tubelike fleece pocket that wraps around your waist.

    what are some warm gloves that would work for bowhunting? 2010

  • I also would suggest a hand-warmer belt that has a tubelike fleece pocket that wraps around your waist.

    what are some warm gloves that would work for bowhunting? 2010

  • The first trocar, a long, metal, tubelike arm with a camera attached, went in through another tiny incision in the abdomen.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • The first trocar, a long, metal, tubelike arm with a camera attached, went in through another tiny incision in the abdomen.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Doctors can thread Sapien—a steel mesh cylinder that collapses into a tubelike catheter—from a small incision near the groin, through an artery, to the heart.

    Heart Valve's Launch Is Painstaking Christopher Weaver 2012

  • I took my hands off the rail and just used my legs to propel me two at a time up the tubelike staircase, with its forgotten wallpaper and its unappreciated carpet.

    Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010

  • Overhead, moving in a closely packed formation, were six squat cones, supported on dozens of tiny, tubelike legs.

    Tin 2010

  • There were also squat cones, supported on dozens of tiny tubelike legs; and there was one impressive thing like a giant praying mantis.

    Tin 2010

  • Its thin wispy tentacles waved about in a free-flowing fashion over its tubelike body.

    The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

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