A rope-like cord connecting the fetus to the placenta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossary] Reference

Platt, in which the pieces are treated in a rope-like form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference

D. wearing these heavy, rope-like braids to the hem of the skirt in front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman as Decoration] Reference

Tendon A strong rope-like structure in the body that connects muscles to bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

The trees were so thick, and heavy rope-like creepers hung down from them everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Mountain]

Figure 26 represents a fairly well-known machine in which the (p. 203) pieces are treated in a rope-like form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference

Similar to the last: but the potter's wheel is used, and horizontal painted and moulded rope-like ornament also found.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

And then, almost as if in slow motion, she plunged her head right into the loop of some rope-like vine that was hanging from a tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [weeme Diary Entry] Reference

The young men had close-clipped hair and looked like clever bull-terriers, but the older men wore long pigtails wound round their heads in black, rope-like coils.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference

Some of the trees showed the living bark restricted to a narrow, flattened, rope-like strip running up the trunk to one or a very few branches (Plate 1, Fig. 3).    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference

It has a rope-like texture and comes from the kenaf plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [WWMT.com : News] Reference

They turn into little twisted rope-like shapes, like these.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Hungry - Japanese recipes, healthy and fun eating, the expat food life and more.] Reference

The whip handle is plastic, while the whip part is “rope-like”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Her face creased into lines, which tightened rope-like under the tanned skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tess of the Storm Country] Reference

He hit futilely with his knuckles at the rope-like sinews of the brown forearms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Bloweth] Reference

A rope-like effect may be obtained by twisting a single length of flat or square wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Tendons are rope-like structures that connect muscle to bone and enable the bone to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [News 8 Austin Top Stories] Reference

The creature skipped to the other corner of the doorway, hitting my hand with its cold, rope-like tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers] Reference

A strange man stood there, with his eye bruised and blood dripping down to his coarse, rope-like beard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times] Reference

• Texture: The invasive algae forms clumps or rope-like strands with a rough fibrous or cottony feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knox] Reference

They're all attached in a rope-like strand, like the Dietz & Watson brand (more on that in the slideshow).    From Wordnik.com.  [Serious Eats] Reference

The most common surfaces are carpet, bark and sisal (the rope-like material used in many scratching posts).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A rope-like withe of the fiber of the yucca, made quite fine, is wrapped with flat strips of the same plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428] Reference

Some had enormous buttress trunks, which sent down rope-like tendrils from their branches in every direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Banks of the Amazon] Reference

The spawn or mycelium is in the form of rope-like strands which are usually much branched and matted together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

He was smooth-shaven, quite pale, and had scant gray hair which in greasy, rope-like strands touched his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desired Woman] Reference

In places the mycelium forms rope-like strands, at first white in color, but later becoming dark brown and shining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

The oakum comes in boxes of long lengths of rope-like material that the teams learned to cut into manageable small lengths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories] Reference

Varicose veins are larger, dilated blood vessels that can be raised above the skin's surface and have a rope-like appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

Anglo-Africans call the rope-like creepers, was also plentiful; it may prove valuable for cordage, and possibly for paper-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

Kefir grains contain a water soluble polysaccharide known as kefiran that imparts a rope-like texture and feeling in one's mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Find Me A Cure] Reference

These, and her masses of golden hair, which flowed loosely about her head in thick, rope-like curls, were her great claims to beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies] Reference

Standing alone, Greek inspired draping, suede, cut outs, eighties sportswear and rope-like accessories can have an appealing aesthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [FASHION INDIE » FASHION PORN] Reference

The most noted and destructive of these vegetable boa-constrictors is the gigantic rope-like rata, whose Gordian knot nothing can untie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference

One of these, running from one surface of the cake, is a rope-like appendage, the umbilical cord, which links the placenta with the fetus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy] Reference

Family members found the boy dead in a closet in a residence on Georgetown Drive after he had been playing with a rope-like garment string.    From Wordnik.com. Reference