Usage examples (4)

• Her husband did not venture forth from his interior world, his head trembling on its stalklike neck.
• It was so cold that when Nelly looked down at the ant army, even the insects seemed to be shivering on their stalklike legs.
• As its name would imply, the pineal looks like a miniature pine cone sitting in the middle of the brain atop a stalklike appendage.
• The polyps are stalklike forms that attach to a surface (usually ocean bottom) by means of rootlike filaments.