linklike

comparative more linklike · superlative most linklike

1. Resembling a series of links, as in a chain; catenulate.

   Ribbon lightning looks like parallel streaks of bright light, while chain lightning is a flash that forms a series of linklike streaks as it fades.

   2001, Jeff Groman, The Atlas of Natural Disasters, New York, N.Y.: Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc., published 2002, →ISBN, page 42

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   The thallus may be one (Plate I, A–C, F) or few-celled, often linklike (Plate I, D, I) and monophagous, or may be segmented and hyphalike (Plate I, E, L) and extend through many host cells.

   1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 159

   Maybe men sensed this linklike closeness, mother linked to daughter, daughter linked to mother, daughter, mother, daughter, mother, daughter stretching back through time, forward through time, linked on a single pulsing cord from one end of eternity to the other.

   1970, Jacqueline Briskin, California Generation, Philadelphia, P.A.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 112