What is "wirelike"

Usage examples of "wirelike".

From the base of these rose upright a gauzy veil of azure filaments of the same length as the petals, wirelike, yet soft as silk, and inside them again rested a chalice of silver holding a tiny pool of limpid golden honey.

The stranger had dark red, wirelike hair, a stern slash of a mouth, and ears that were not quite round as his own, but pear-shaped.

She could feel only wirelike strands that matted like wet string in the wind.

Its metamorphosis complete, it had been quivering frantically within the cocoon, its wirelike legs twitching ceaselessly, as if it was eager to be free but frightened of the hostile world into which it would be born.

With his hand he smoothed down his ruffled gray mass of wirelike hair.

Then a thing with a body like a small tree but supported on dozens of stiff, wirelike tentacles, emerged from the dead creature and started toward them with terrible rapidity.

A thing of tendrils and wirelike hair swung in a tight ball from the top of its cage.

They had piled most of it on the top of her head in stiff curls, coils, and braids, leaving only a few tendrils, stiffened with dressing and trained into wirelike spirals, to trail artificially about her face.

There were thousands of bristling, wirelike black hairs on those brittle legs.

Somehow Cat was making a wirelike protrusion on each end of itself, thrusting the wirelike extensions down into the drilled holes.

His hair stood on end, the hair on his head and on his body, each separate strand vibrating stiffly and wirelike, as if energized by some electricity in the moonlight.

Pliant, wirelike threads, patterned after the complicated design of a spider web, had been joined to form a gigantic meshwork that could capture a human form.

Her hands were bound before her with thin wirelike strands that bit into her wrists.

The almost metallic red sheen of the creature's cylindrical body, the eyes like coals of fire, the wirelike fingers and toes, and the over-all scarlet hideousness of it startled him.

The almost metallic red sheen of the creatures cylindrical body, the eyes like coals of fire, the wirelike fingers and toes, and the over-all scarlet hideousness of it startled him.