What is "ropelike"

Usage examples of "ropelike".

Something dark, ropelike, hit the blade of that, dropped limply away again, severed.

Kamahl reached up at the tentacles above him, letting the ropelike membranes encircle his wrist and forearm.

After tying her gown and robe around her hips so her legs would be free, she climbed up on the railing and grabbed a handful of ropelike lengths.

Thousands of tubes are wound together into ropelike segments so that the supports resemble deep black laminated leather, but are rigid like a beetle shell-you could easily hold a 500foot rod of this material in one hand.

Unlike spiders, most of whom built nets upon which they might catch a hapless passerby, the Webspinner Plants could throw sticky, ropelike lines for some distance.

He gave the alert, still tracing that rippling, ropelike thing back to the crevice from which it protruded.

Then he tied each sheaf at several points with the ropelike vines which the natives had used.

As was to be expected, all kinds of fungi thrived, but there were bushes and even smaller plants growing in the thick leaf litter, and ropelike vines that wreathed the trees and climbed up into the light.

Several wet and slimy looking ropelike objects were hurled at her from the two largest of those raised up from the ground.