hooklike

They have hooklike claws on their arms and legs to keep them attached to trees.

See this hooklike projection at the back of the thrower?

Some have little hooklike things for anchoring the mouth parts into the bite.

Ahead, a hooklike point jutted out, and beyond it I could see small waves blowing down the channel from the north.

The surface of the fruit has hooklike projections.

Wood noted that the wing was heavily veined and curious hooklike terminations.

It is almost rectangularly-shaped, with a slight hooklike protuberance on the northeastern region of the island.

But the four triangular flaps with their bony, hooklike extensions posed a completely different and more difficult problem.

The leaves are narrow, curving, and hooklike, hardening into sharp spines up to 2.5 centimeters long.

The problem with most flu vaccines is that the "picture" that the antibodies get only describes those hooklike proteins.

There is a hooklike pattern on the forewings, with black proximal and paler (almost white) distal margins.

The pale-throated sloth can hang so securely with its hooklike claws that it even falls asleep in this position.

She tried to lift a hand, fingers flexed for clawing, but then the hand fell down onto the sheet and the fingers lost their hooklike attitude.

This particular kovsh, from the early 1900's, has the traditional boat form with a squat body, a raised "prow" and a hooklike "rudder," which is actually its handle.

A batik blanket with dotted diamonds, zigzags and hooklike curves is woven with an indigo-dyed cotton warp (earlier threads were spun from plant and bark fibers).

The doctors, expecting to encounter many amputees, had studied the problem before leaving Switzerland, and concluded that for people who still had one hand a simple hooklike prosthesis would suffice.

The outermost segment has a featherlike appendage, called the arista, at the outer end and a hooklike structure at the inner end that fits into a second, adjoining segment.

Sloths are active at night and sleep curled up with their head placed between the arms and the feet drawn close together, or hanging upsidedown with the help of their hooklike claws.

The fleet, six-legged devices could reach any point in the building within twenty minutes and followed their individual targets by moving behind walls and through air ducts; hooklike feet allowed them to travel vertically along most surfaces.

The limbs pounced, striking downwards, their leaves turning inward like the knives they so resembled, and the bush's prey squealed a high, piercing note of agony as hooklike briars seized and tore at it.

One side shows hundreds of people behind a banner proclaiming El Rio Belongs to the People, while a wall in the open-air interior patio shows a supra-realistic Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god, with a rectangular head, orange-ringed eyes and hooklike teeth, looking over a water fountain.

Having observed him closely at dinner, though, I was nearly sure that what I was seeing in the left hand was not arthritis, but Dupuytren's contracture-an odd, hooklike drawing-in of the ring and little fingers toward the palm of the hand, caused by shortening of the palmar aponeurosis.