snakelike
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This multipronged approach revealed that while other reptiles have evolved many snakelike traits -- 25 different groups of lizards also lost their limbs, for instance -- only snakes experienced this level of explosive diversification.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
Someone at the start of a promising career in journalism who is so aggressively flattering and greasily evasive, with a snap-on, snakelike, aw-shucks smile, has got to have a scheme up his sleeve.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
The byway’s 27 miles of snakelike curves follow the river, surrounded by gently sloping, tuft-covered hills that climb to stunning basalt columns.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
Lean and sinewy, with snakelike flexibility, Paulekas contorted without restraint on the dance floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
A golden dragon with long whiskers and a snakelike body is painted across one wall.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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