paddle-shaped fins. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It was a carved piece of wood, vaguely paddle-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [Sabotaged] Reference
A second attendant brought pointed sticks, and two paddle-shaped blades. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands] Reference
Eyes emerged, then paddle-shaped fins adjusted: its spin stopped in an instant. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf's Children]
The lee boards were paddle-shaped affairs of the form and dimensions shown in Fig. 121. From Wordnik.com. [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference
Then Verlin tucked the flat paddle-shaped not-a-lute beneath his chin and began to play. From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
Yet there it stood, on three wide landing legs with paddle-shaped feet, its sharp nose pointed up at us. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
They gripped branches with two forward claws, but the little paddle-shaped wings aft blurred with their vibration. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf's Children]
You can see them in this image, although it really doesn't do them justice—they're thin, membranous folds that make the tail paddle-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: August 2006 Archives] Reference
The weapons they carried were longer and heavier than the prawn-killers of the southern Fuzzies, knobbed instead of paddle-shaped, and sharp-pointed on the other end. From Wordnik.com. [The Fuzzy Papers]
The publisher of Bride's magazine, Deborah Fine, gave out small, paddle-shaped, battery-operated, Bride's - embossed objects to the magazine's staff over the holidays. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Columnist Amy Sohn Kisses the Post Goodbye] Reference
Pale, shimmering and more elegant than its name would imply, the palm-size creature swims upright, navigating by moving two body-length rows of thin, paddle-shaped protrusions. From Wordnik.com. [Scientists unveil the squidworm, a newly discovered species] Reference
Manatees — those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails — are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. From Wordnik.com. [Manatees paddle to warm water to escape Florida chill] Reference
Manatees – those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails – are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. From Wordnik.com. [Manatees Flock To Power Plants To Escape Cold Water] Reference
I was crouched down, trying to take a picture of some pretty frost etched leaves and was scooching back a bit to get a better shot when I literally stumbled over it, this flat, paddle-shaped bleached object. From Wordnik.com. [weeme Diary Entry] Reference
When he returned, the five newcomers were squatting in a circle inside the door with Little Fuzzy, examining his steel weapon and comparing it with the paddle-shaped hardwood sticks they had made for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Fuzzy Papers]
Manatees – those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails –. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Dayton mandolin pegheads prior to this were paddle-shaped like their Gibson counterparts. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
• To lighten up all that cool blue, consider the paddle-shaped, evergreen leaves of the new. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
But instead of microwaves, a rapidly changing magnetic field is generated by the paddle-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Manatees – those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails – are swimming out. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Centre of paddle-shaped part white, tentacula blue and white, fringed with dark blue at the extremity. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference
That would belong to its paddle-shaped design, a first as far as we're aware, and a masochist's dream come true. From Wordnik.com. [Maximum PC all RSS Feed] Reference
Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tall. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass] Reference
Where the black bear is searching for roots or honeywhere the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tail. From Wordnik.com. [Walt Whitman] Reference
Manatees - those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails - are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
A number of bone implements, including needles, perforators, and paddle-shaped objects, found with the skeletons in the mound. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510] Reference
The distal phalanx is elongate and paddle-shaped, with a flat proximal articulation and a rounded dorsoventrally compressed body. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
An ergonomically designed remote controller, paddle-shaped for easy gripping, offers large buttons arrayed with an eye to logical placement. From Wordnik.com. [TWICE - Digital Imaging News] Reference
Danny was stuffing the leg of an old pair of blue trousers with straw, flattening it out until it bore a faint resemblance to the paddle-shaped tail of a beaver. From Wordnik.com. [The Circus Comes to Town] Reference
Manatees - those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails - are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
The tail was paddle-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference
1st arm. 26 tentacula attached to the rounded paddle-shaped part of this arm, the centre tentacle more than twice the length of the others. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference
Other aquatic snakes have paddle-shaped tails. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
paddle-shaped tail. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
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