What is "rootlike"

Usage examples of "rootlike".

Wormgrass and feather fern battled for control of the walls, and rootlike plants dangled from the tunnel roof.

The casura was nothing but eyes and mouths and rootlike, spidery hands, the whole flung together like chopped grasshoppers caught in a threshing basket.

And few vines or rootlike creepers swung from overhead to brush against them, for these too had snapped away as the reaver army marched beneath.

Tubers and hairy rootlike plants hung from the roof in twisted splendor, while giant fungi rose up like little islands from the tickle ferns that covered the floor.

The ruff on her neck bucked up, pulling a frightening tangle of rootlike connectors out of her flesh and into the air.

She felt the sharp pain of teeth in her flesh and then there was a convulsive jerking to the body perched on hers and the Thas rolled off to lie beside her, its rootlike fingers, its thin arms, threading wildly in the air.

Each trailed a rootlike anchor, and as Lot watched, the twin tangles reached for one another, melding into a knot of tissue smoothed together by some active nanomech.

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.

Gunsel sat down next to the other two, a pile of leaves and some long, stringy rootlike fibers piled beside him.

And it was not only his face, or his thousand faces, that he painted into this picture, not only his eyes and lips, the pained ravine of his mouth, the cleft cliffs of his forehead, his rootlike hands, his twitching fingers, the mockery of reason, the death in his eyes.

It is hardly possible to imagine a greater difference than that between an animal with prehensile limbs, a wellconstructed mouth and alimentary canal, and one destitute of all these organs and feeding by absorption through branching rootlike processes.

Below, the analogy was perfected by an inverted tree of rootlike plumbing that spread fractally through the diamondoid bedrock of New Chusan, terminating in the warm water of the South China Sea as numberless capillaries arranged in a belt around the smartcoral reef, several dozen nieters beneath the surface.

It was pinkish-brown, and about the size of a melon, but sort of Gibraltar-shaped, with a flat, angled grinding-surface on the top and a system of rootlike legs below.

Blythe gazed down at her plate of blackened meat and an unidentifiable large rootlike vegetable with what she suspected was a dazed expression.

Behind the puddles and pools, solid forms resembling large oddly shaped yellow trees with some fatal disease slid forward on rootlike lower limbs.