It's the beak-like snout and flipper-like limbs that confuse folks.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2008] Reference

It ` s the beak-like snout and flipper-like limbs that confuse folks.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2008] Reference

He had a single flipper-like appendage at the back of his rounded belly, but he did not appear to use it to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Ship]

The light causes a chemical bond to kink or unkink, producing a flipper-like motion in the two prongs of the molecule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molecular Machinery Gets Off The Blocks | Blog | Futurismic] Reference

Their own wings were still small and flipper-like when, about the first of August, they were spending the day, as they often did, in a small cove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories] Reference

With a relaxed, tranquil stroke that belied the fierce power in his legs and flipper-like feet, the Australian kept gaining ground, drawing even and finally touching the wall with a confident lunge.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I'm not going to lie. The thought really crossed my mind for a split-second, 'There's no way.'"] Reference

Instead of hands and fingers, each forearm tapered until it split again into a pair of flexible gray flanges that looked oddly clumsy and flipper-like but were doubtless capable of sufficient manipulation with which to raise a civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running From The Deity]

Her name was Frances Oldham, not that we remember that, and the drug thalidomide, which we have also just about forgotten, caused horrifying birth defects such as flipper-like arms and legs in countries where it was used to treat morning sickness during pregnancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet D.C.'s new mayor] Reference

A relative, the fishing cat, also has part-webbed feet, but the flat-headed cat's are far more flipper-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

Paul Lizard coming in sight, she bolted at him, moving over the ground with her flipper-like feet at a rapid rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.] Reference

While the whales likely could support their weight on their flipper-like limbs, they probably couldn't go far on land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

For a bird endowed only with flipper-like wings, and therefore absolutely unable to fly, this species had an astonishing geographic range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

I heard their flipper-like, embryotic wings beating sleepily as the birds stretched and yawned their beaks and clacked them, preparing for slumber.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Unknown] Reference

But here the males look very different: larger, darker, often patterned with stripes or spots, with huge flipper-like feet and greatly flattened tails.    From Wordnik.com.  [LinuxChix aggregator] Reference

Maiacetus had four legs modified for foot-powered swimming, and although these whales could support their weight on their flipper-like limbs, they probably couldn't travel far on land.    From Wordnik.com.  [PALAEOBLOG] Reference

Like other primitive archaeocetes, Maiacetus had four legs modified for foot-powered swimming, and although these whales could support their weight on their flipper-like limbs, they probably couldn't travel far on land.    From Wordnik.com.  [NSF News] Reference

Medical depictions of natural deformations (how's that for an oxymoron?) of the body, like the Mermaid Girl, a child born with her legs fused together in a single, flipper-like appendage; or Octoman, a man born with four arms and three legs, a married man, with children, walking around with a parasitic twin attached to his midsection.    From Wordnik.com.  [RVABlogs] Reference