What is "spikelike"

Usage examples of "spikelike".

Tsia pulled the flexor from her harness and flicked it into a narrow, spikelike sword.

The shore was lined with a wide margin of sweet flag, and he pulled up great armfuls of the long green spikelike leaves to lay over the burning wood.

Most awful were the hands, whose fingers were not of flesh but of long spikelike claws twenty or more centimeters long, and not only pointed but barbed as well.

Her hair jutted from her head in spikelike braids, each tied with a sliver of pink ribbon Julie had given her when she discovered the child admiring them in her armoire.

Brandark grunted in anguish as envenomed jaws punched spikelike teeth through the left arm of his haubergeon.

Unless, of course, he delayed too long, in which case it would simply catch him in its spikelike teeth.

The head of the weapon was fashioned in the shape of a demonic face with twisting, spikelike horns.

He had clipped the stem short, and it resembled the rose upon his shield exactly, right down to the thick, spikelike thorns.

On top of the head were two flaps of skin stretched taut by rigid, spikelike projections.

Toward the top of the picture, a collection of spikelike shadows stretched several millimeters.

Though the daylight was clear, this spikelike band could be plainly seen.

It was now near the end of the day and the time he reached the first spikelike branch which gave him an opportunity to rest, the sun was preparing its pyrotechnics of Florida eventide.

This dreadful maw was crammed to overflowing with spikelike teeth, the tips of which were stained with moist blood, and yet found room for a horrible purple tongue which dripped gooey phlegm.

In the tray lay a desiccated fish carcass about six inches long, blunt-headed, with ganoid scales and paired rows of spikelike fins along its belly.

Long stalactites menaced my head, and nasty little spikelike formations underfoot threatened to impale me if I should slip and fall.