I wanted something that looked like the grabber, but also was rootlike and a little, well, more finger-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [Twitters for 11-6-08] Reference
His arms and legs were thick branches, very knobby at the joints and his fingers and toes rootlike extremities. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodlines]
Lichen-plastered rocks and loose gravel scrolled underneath at a steady pace as the tree ambled on hundreds of small rootlike legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For WondLa] Reference
Vaananen watched in horrified fascination as the thing sprouted eight white, rootlike legs, which sud'denly began to twitch and wave. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
This primitive placenta has tiny rootlike projections that penetrate the uterine lining and acquire nutrients for the developing embryo. From Wordnik.com. [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference
Some hopped like frogs, some rolled, some scuttled on rootlike filaments that were covered in flowers whose centers were the faces of blind children. From Wordnik.com. [Time Was]
The region can be visualized as a rootlike labyrinth of narrow inlets, estuaries, and bays reaching south to the state capital, Olympia, 200 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The American Oyster Paradise] Reference
The hole in the ground was under their sleeping furs and filled with the sweet and starchy vegetables, which had been gathered earlier by the small animal when the rootlike corms were at their peak. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
And this rain slip-slipping down the window, capillary, fragmentary, bled, and bleeding out, a kind of river delta, spreading like the rootlike veining of the heart or the ganglia of nerve cells off the spine, the spine itself. From Wordnik.com. [Meander] Reference
As they leaned against the rootlike branches of the mangroves dark shadows moved above them. From Wordnik.com. [The Plunderer] Reference
The polyps are stalklike forms that attach to a surface (usually ocean bottom) by means of rootlike filaments. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A rhizome is a rootlike semi to subterranean stem, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots from the upper surface. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
By burying its rootlike limbs into the nervous system of the host bulborb and infusing it with natural hormonal excretions, the bulbmin is able to control virtually all of the host's bodily functions. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
Little could be seen of her person, for heavy gold-embroidered damask curtains hung around the wide, lofty bedstead, falling from the canopy projecting, rootlike, above the top, where gilded child genii bore a royal crown. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
The rootlike toes grasped the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
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