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
“And it’s hard to think of an actor with a naturally hungrier look than Ron Cephas Jones, the tall, beanpole-thin, snakelike actor who portrays the title character.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
Duodenoscopes are long, snakelike cameras inserted into the upper part of the small intestine through the mouth to diagnose and treat diseases of the pancreas and the bile duct.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
Human infants do pay special attention to images of snakes and snakelike movements, though without necessarily being scared.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
It climbed like a rising girdle from the west and wound snakelike about the Mountain, until before it went round out of view it reached the foot of the cone upon its eastern side.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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