What is "riblike"

Usage examples of "riblike".

The mucilage had been shaped into riblike pillars that arced up gently to reach a point some thirty feet overhead.

The riblike supports on the walls swayed with the motion, and the floor beneath her began to rise and fall as if in waves.

It was a different shade of white, however, and the riblike projections which emerged from the pile were not ice crystals.

A pair of riblike bones, each fastened to portions of fin with strings cut from his former cape, made passable paddles with which to propel the once-living raft.

Then they climbed, appreciating how well the tubular creature was designed, with riblike bones, easy stairs, encircling it.

Even though the sun was bright outside it was still dark and damp in here, the heavy riblike beams overhead catching so little of the reflected light they seemed lost in darkness.

It led his eye upward, half a mile, to the wide, riblike ridge that marked the lower margin of another slope of weathered rocks.