hairlike
hairlike — adjective
- hairlikepositive
- more hairlikecomparative
- most hairlikesuperlative
1. very thin and long, looking similar to a single piece of hair — used for fibres,
very thin and long, looking similar to a single piece of hair — used for fibres, cracks, lines, or tiny structures such as the roots that pull water into a plant.
Under the microscope, Mateo saw thousands of hairlike roots reaching out from the seedling.
attributive: hairlike + noun (roots)
A hairlike crack ran across the bedroom window after the small earthquake last night.
common collocation: hairlike crack
The artist drew hairlike lines on the bird's wing to show every feather.
Adaeze pulled a hairlike fibre off her wool sweater and studied it carefully.
Thin hairlike wires inside the old radio were almost too small to see.
- threadlike
very close in meaning; slightly more common in everyday English
- filamentous
more technical; common in biology and physics
- fine
broader; can describe thin things that don't look much like hair
文法句型
hairlike + noun
用法筆記
Almost always used before a noun (attributive). Common with small, thin physical things — roots, cracks, fibres, wires, lines — not with people's actual hair.