lacelike

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And at the back is a long white landscape, bordered by a tangle of trees with lacelike leaves.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013

The neurons are intricately connected by fine, often branching fibers, so the whole brain is a lacelike network of relays and conductors.

From Time Magazine Archive

"This lends support to a theory," said he, "which has recently been advanced that all proteins tend to spread out on surfaces and when they do so they all have a similar lacelike pattern."

From Time Magazine Archive

In lacelike prose, with just enough homely obtrusions to prevent his art from seeming precious, Updike tells of a young man's epiphany.

From Time Magazine Archive

The organ's hum grew softer, and the censers swung with a silvery tinkling of their slender chains, releasing a cloudlet of white smoke, which unrolled in lacelike folds.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile