What is "spoonlike"

Usage examples of "spoonlike".

The sun peeked down through the green ceiling of the rain forest, and the usual sounds of life and death began to override the steady drip, drip, drip of the rain water slowly trickling from the wide spoonlike leaves that had captured it for a few fleeting moments.

He sat behind his desk, and after poking his pipe with a spoonlike device, he blew through it once or twice to make sure it was drawing properly and then set about filling it very deliberately and methodically, while Becker, the inevitable cigar in his fist, strode up and down the room and told what had happened, what he suspected, and what he expected Greenspan to do.

Then we lay at full length on slatted wooden tables in a room called the laconicum, while our slaves scraped the ooze off every part of us, using an assortment of different-sized, curved, spoonlike things called strigiles.

Lime entered her domain and caught up a batch of the bowls, together with spoonlike utensils.

His fingers sought its rough, bony knuckles, recognized the chipped, spoonlike nails.