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sawlike

a. Resembling a saw (cutting tool) or some aspect of one.

Usage examples of "sawlike".

When Tyranthraxus had been defeated, a wide swath had been cut through several rows of the sawlike leaves, black flowers, and poisonous six-inch thorns, but in the years since then the hedges had grown back enough to warrant caution.

In the late afternoon we began the ascent of the Sierras, whose sawlike points had been in sight for many miles.

He held up the sharp blade, which had many jagged sawlike teeth, and nodded to his companion.

Quenthel struck and deflected a tentacle with sawlike teeth on the edge.

Moist, dark eyes behind horn-rimmed glasses, thin cheeks and sawlike cheekbones, liver-spotted hands trembling as he raised one and shoved his glasses higher on his nose.

Thousands of dark tendrils with fine, sawlike spines latched onto our bodies.

The fact that I was tightly rolled in blankets did not keep at bay the sawlike abrasion that began on my skin at the places where my body strained against the ropes lashing me to the horse.

One composed of soaring spires, jagged, edged with sawlike serrations as if rock had been rendered molten then flung upwards to solidify in flight to form a pattern resembling the gigantic bristles of a monstrous brush.