An extinct fishlike vertebrate. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We watched him move around, fishlike, on the sonogram. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Essay: Kyle Minor] Reference
The face that looked down at me was no longer fishlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
Her long tail was rounded, snakelike rather than fishlike. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
The old woman moved her lips in a feeble, fishlike motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Unforgiven] Reference
The Dindamorii are ruby-red and covered with fishlike scales. From Wordnik.com. [Legacy] Reference
I was speechless; my mouth opened and closed several times, fishlike. From Wordnik.com. [I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone] Reference
GORANI: All right, a fishlike pushup, it's called Titaalik Rosae (ph). From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2006] Reference
Sima and Lupe immediately began to scratch a fishlike picture on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Circles of Stone] Reference
Vaguely fishlike silhouettes moved back and forth against the diffuse moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [She Is The Darkness]
Quite familiar fishlike forms have emerged and dominate the seas as they do on Earth. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
As she struck the water her clothing disappeared and her body became roughly fishlike. From Wordnik.com. [Xone of Contention]
The shirt seemed to be made of silvery fishlike scales, which glistened like a rainbow. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
'Hang me, Lessingham, if I don't believe there is some warm blood in those fishlike veins of yours. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Also An Ancient Fish, has very ancient and fishlike ideas as to how, numbers represent merit: she says. From Wordnik.com. [A Tangled Tale] Reference
There had to be a vast, complex ecology here, schools of fishlike things to feed on, a pyramid of life. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
Another noose was applied near the other end of the fishlike form, at the narrowest part just above the flukes. From Wordnik.com. [The Nitrogen Fix]
The philosoph's naturally blue chiton looked good in it, but it made the rest of them appear 'vaguely fishlike. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
A brace of the large silver fishlike creatures the Colony had dubbed "samlon" slapped against his muscular back. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
After dinner, Ginny bathed her, working the wet washcloth over her spine, the sharp ridges ancient and fishlike. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at the Feast] Reference
The eyes were sunken under brows at once apelike and fishlike and the face extruded out more snout or gill-like than nose. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Imagine sailors who, far out at sea, transform the shape of their clumsy vessel from a more circular to a more fishlike one. From Wordnik.com. [Neurath on sociology] Reference
The one point caught the fishlike form a few centimeters below the top of the lateral fins and just in front of the left one. From Wordnik.com. [The Nitrogen Fix]
The egg hatches into a fishlike creature, such as you see in there; then the fish develops lungs and is beached by the tides. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
Its hands were limp and fishlike, dead; the fingers clove to one another like the fingers of a glove long immersed in drying mud. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
On what corresponded to the human chest of each of the fishlike forms was a disc of specialized tissue a dozen centimeters across. From Wordnik.com. [The Nitrogen Fix]
Thin natural scientists who had spent months locked away in their rooms growing white and fishlike, emerged blinking into the light. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
The speaker turned, and looked at Simon with almost transparent fishlike grey-green eyes in a face that was alert yet slightly pudgy. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
Twice they stopped to watch herds of pale fishlike creatures crawl laboriously across the gully on pseudo-legs that looked like fins. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
Amphibia are derived from fishlike ancestral forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
They were covered with close-fitting, fishlike scales. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Adventures of Three Boys] Reference
None of the flat fishlike eyes acknowledged the introduction by so much as a flicker. From Wordnik.com. [The Saint in Action]
The fishlike flopping of Peter's heart slowed down as if the fish were losing strength. From Wordnik.com. [Winnie Childs The Shop Girl] Reference
He clearly loves to draw depiction of mermaids as tubby, fishlike creatures who chain-smoke. From Wordnik.com. [COMIXTALK] Reference
Instinctively I held out my hand, and the next moment it was clasping something cold and damp and fishlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Magnet] Reference
In the Ichthyosaurus (fish reptile), for example, the body was fishlike in form, with short neck and large, pointed head. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
These small, fishlike forms were cased in front with bony plates developed in the skin and covered in the rear with scales. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
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