What is "fanlike"

Usage examples of "fanlike".

The other was filled with an enormous fanlike artificial construction mounted on struts sufficient to make a millipede jealous.

As the city continued to unroll beneath them, Kirk began to sense its true size, and that of the fanlike structure they were nearing.

Occasionally they accomplished long swoops with the auxiliary use of two or more sets of their fanlike folding wings.

Knowledge and interest in the northern world, save for a study of coast lines probably made during long exploration flights on those fanlike membranous wings, had evidently declined to zero among the Old Ones.

Solong--the one to run round by the ends of the western spurs that spread fanlike, and the other to go through and over, the rough country.

His gaze lifted to the two-story house and the fanlike gushes of light that spilled from its windows, giving its solidness a look of warmth and welcome.

Unless the eye caught him in actual motion, he was hard to see among the fanlike leaves, which were practically the same green-gray hue as his fur.

His nose had been docked flat and his ears made enormous, fanlike things that swung slowly as he went.

Around his neck he wore a fanlike ornament of silver, on his feet jeweled sandals, and around his biceps bracelets of gold.

Other insectoids wafted about on graceful, colorful, nearly translucent disk or fanlike wings that seemed to move only enough to catch eddies of air.

The strands of wire were spread out fanlike from where he lay behind the screen of cut brush.

The six Chinese boys were less demonstrative than any, but even they came around in a fanlike confrontation, plainly warlike, arms suddenly stiff and ready for anything.

Broad, flat, and squared off at the end, it was not one tail but a series of bones that, fanlike, she could open or close, to widen or narrow the tail.

He too had the flat fanlike tail and the long, thin, powerful-looking arms and legs.

They had short, stubby fanlike tails that, unlike a kangaroo or wallaby, could not support them standing on the rear legs alone, so when still, they were on all fours with the long neck craning their heads up.