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

“It doesn’t matter where the money comes from if no one ever looks,” one snakelike character connected to the PAC tries to reassure another.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 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