different between cagelike vs atrane

English

cage +? -like

cagelike (comparative more cagelike, superlative most cagelike)

Like a cage.
- 1990,. Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
  This version shows a small figure inside of cagelike towers, perhaps symbolizing the fledgling sculptor's dreams of creation.
- 2004, Bruce Alberts, Essential Cell Biology: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell
  Why would this cagelike structure be energetically unfavorable?

atrane (plural atranes)

(organic chemistry) Any of a class of tricyclic cagelike heterocycles having a transannular dative bond between a nitrogen and another heteroatom

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