What is "hooklike"

Usage examples of "hooklike".

Each of these grasping appendages terminated in four much smaller, delicate hooklike prehensile appendages, the tips of which normally touched one another.

The tips of his forelegs were no longer inverted, with the result that the bladed structures had disappeared and the small, four-jointed, hooklike prehensile appendages were again fully visible.

Here and there Priest-Kings moved lightly about, occasionally noting the movements of scent-needles, sometimes delicately adjusting a dial with the nimble, hooklike appendages at the tips of their forelegs.

Two of the tiny hooklike appendages on his foreleg spun the power dial on the control box.

The character's upright columns slanted dramatically and terminated in jagged, upended inflections that gave it a sinister, hooklike or splayed appearance and caused it to hover like an evil bird above all the other medals and insignia.

In her mind, she remembered her own electron microscope scan of the metal: the tiny particulate matrix linked together by hooklike appendages.

He unfolded the grapple, made sure the rubber coverings—bits of rubber tubing—were in place over the hooklike tips so as to muffle sound.

The ring-finger swiftly lengthened into a lone, hooklike talon and began to grow scales.