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

Small fish float belly-up alongside snakelike tubes of irrigation piping.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2023

Four simply depict it — Nellie Mae Rowe, Mrs. Nellie May Rowe — in extravagant, curling and in one instance, snakelike cursive.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

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

It had two legs near the front of its long, snakelike body, and it used them to propel itself around the barn in pursuit of the feline house spirit.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack