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Hairlike

adjective
1.
Long and slender with a very small internal diameter.  Synonym: capillary.






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... this way, but in other ways, by having a more ordinary and regular kind of offspring. Little eggs are hatched and the young are passed out by the way of the mouth, and they go swimming about as little oval bodies covered with a very curious kind of hairlike processes. Each of these processes is capable of striking water like an oar; and the consequence is that the young creature is propelled through the water. So that you have the young polype floating about in this fashion, covered ...
— Coral and Coral Reefs • Thomas H. Huxley



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