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
Human infants do pay special attention to images of snakes and snakelike movements, though without necessarily being scared.
From Scientific American • Sep. 18, 2022
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
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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