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batlike

a. 1 Having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal. 2 Similar to that of a bat

Usage examples of "batlike".

The batlike Pipistrelles and the wispy lattice webs of the Gossameres, residents of deep space, were only found light-years away from fierce stellar radiation.

Broad shoulders rippled, and batlike ears and long, lashing tails bobbed exultantly as they came bounding along like playful orcs, black eyes snapping with glee.

Doglike forms and batlike forms and snakelike forms were arriving and settling and moving into position in a huge encircling mass all around us, like spectators coming into a stadium.

Behind the special place where the senses come together to describe reality I see the form of a batlike epigon taking shape beside her.

Later, they heard a rushing sound, a thump and the thud of feet over their heads, but not until they rounded another down-tilting curve and saw the faint light filtering into the cavern through iron bars did they spot the batlike creatures with the spear-shaped proboscises hanging overhead.

Huge batlike wings unfolded behind her and the succubus hovered, laughing at him, her open mouth revealing horrid fangs that would have punctured his neck.

Paulson unceremoniously cutting the goblin down, then slicing off its ears and putting them in a pouch, pausing only to note that the creature was surprisingly well armed for one of its kind and that it wore an insignia on its leather jerkin, a black emblem of a batlike creature on a light gray background.

And just as it seemed as if the airship was drawing closer, just when he fancied he could see batlike wings jutting out from either side, the ship sailed silently into a cloud and was gone.

As they hurtled past it, it spread, its batlike wings and took off straight up into the air.

Once, as his face came opposite a cell opening, a hideous batlike visage looked into his as the bryluka started to emerge.

It landed hard, rolled to a sitting position, then quickly hopped up, flapping batlike wings to get itself into the air once more before the deadly drow could close in.

The thunderous beat of batlike wings buffeted her, and the dense forest below sped by in a verdant blur.

They were batlike, as I have said, folded and each ended in a little ring of conventionalized feathers.

On them I thought I could see faint tracings a s of c a rv i ngs--n o w a s uggestion of gaping, arrow-fanged dragon jaws, now the outline of a scaled body, a hint of enormous, batlike wings.

He was crouched on the side of the cage, perched on it batlike, and he'd been clearly trying to pry a thick padlock off the gate with a curved bar.