Term Gallery logo

Meanings of hooklike in English

Having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold);

Hooklike.

Related terms
Usage of hooklike in English
1
See this hooklike projection at the back of the thrower?
The Shelters of Stone
2
On the map, the Chester Pond camp road was a thin hooklike thread, almost not there.
Under the dome: a novel
3
Then, with a swift encircling movement, that hooklike arm wrapped itself around Flint's neck and drew him into the shadow.
The Master Mystery
4
On the other hand, the lower jaw of the Marsupial is characterised by a peculiar hooklike process, and this is commonly found in Mesozoic jaws.
The Story of Evolution
Hooklike through the time