hooklike thorns.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The Zhakar carried a hooklike sword that could be used to stab, slash, or grasp an opponent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emperor of Ansalon]

The real treasure, though, is the aforementioned "Windstorm," a percolating summer concoction with a hooklike gull's cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Album review: ‘Disconnect From Desire' by School of Seven Bells] Reference

She tried to lift a hand, fingers flexed for clawing, but then the hand fell down onto the sheet and the fingers lost their hooklike attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Pope]

De Mestral shoved a bit of burr under a microscope and saw that its barbed, hooklike seed pods meshed beautifully with the looped fibers in his clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sticky Stuff] Reference

This might be hard to visualize, but if this little hooklike shape is present, then Huizhen has an unresolved "issue" with strong members of the opposite gender.    From Wordnik.com.  [rouflaquette Diary Entry] Reference

They walk upside down, hanging from branches by their hooklike claws, and feed on leaves, buds, and young twigs.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Then, with a swift encircling movement, that hooklike arm wrapped itself around Flint's neck and drew him into the shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Mystery] Reference

As inferred from the passage, the skeleton of a pterosaur is distinguishable from that of a bird by the evidence of the hooklike projections on its hind feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [LearnHub Activities] Reference

The tail is a grasping instrument, strongly prehensile, and aided by two hooklike claws, sheathed with horn, externally visible on each side, beneath, just anterior to the base of the tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forest & Frontiers] Reference