spinelike

This large jar has a tall spinelike handle that thrusts upward on the top.

It featured an unusual backbone chassis, a central spinelike frame running the length of the car.

Before that, for 40 million years after they first started appearing on land, most plants were essentially leafless stems, sometimes with small spinelike appendages.

The medial keel is prominent with a strong spinelike posterior projection on the 3rd vertebral.

Each flower has usually six tepals, the 3 inner of which are edged with spinelike teeth and have tubercles at their centers.

The bracts are tipped in spinelike awns.

A mouth, small and precise, set below two narrow slots that were its nose, gaped eagerly, revealing a formidable line of spinelike teeth.

There is one large pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3 rounded spinelike oral papillae.

When present, each horn consists of a single long, spinelike scale that can be folded back into an indentation in the postocular scale.

The rachis is elongated bearing slender rachillae with slender, spinelike tips.

The spinelike props that line the stage and are worn by the dancers resemble animal horns, plant shoots and phalluses.

One artist, Ruben Rising, did both on different vases, using sweet peas to form a spinelike pattern and to shape a curvy mouth.

The head appendages bear three spinelike branches at their tip, and three additional spines along the anterior margin.

The glabrous stems are 4 or 5 angled and armed with regularly placed hard and acute spinelike teeth or tubercules.

The walls are lighted to represent fire and water, and spinelike bridges over the chasm symbolize the plant and animal forms that comprise the chains of life.

Ugulan's hood fell from his head, revealing his spinelike brow ridge and showing clearly that he, too, was a Klingon, as if there had been a bit of doubt.

This is because the tentacle scales of the first and second oral tentacle pores are also spinelike, resembling the oral and apical papillae.

The inflorescence atop the stem is an array of small cymes of flowers, each enveloped in a partially fused cup of bracts tipped in spinelike awns.

It was he who had barged the huge granite spire from Egypt and set it upright on the spina of the stadium, a spinelike platform in the center of the racecourse.

As the Star Spear zoomed across the spinelike ridge of the Rockies, Tom said, "Better call Dill-ing, Bud, and let him know we rescued Hank and his crew."

The jaw of spinea has rounded stubby oral papillae, those of hamula are more spinelike and the jaw itself appears to be sunken into the disk, not on the same level as the adoral shields.

The generic name is derived from Greek pheos (meaning a spiny plant) and refers to the many spinelike setae and spinelike processes of the male valva of the genitalia.

Named for the Greek god Proteus, who was noted for his ability to change form, the varieties on display here are amazingly diverse - some look like oversized pincushions, others like feathers and still others have spinelike petals.

Species in the genus Echinodontium have a hydnaceous (with spinelike protuberances) hymenial surface, dimitic hyphal system, smooth basidiospores, and in 3 of 4 species, a symbiotic association with horntails - Sirex and Urocerus species.