Gurken RNA is a key maker of the second body axis, the one that says, here is the dorsal side where wings will someday grow, and here the ventral, where legs may soon sprout forth.

But since revolutions are cyclical, legs are sprouting like crocuses again on the runways.

The corpse's legs had grown woody, and sprouted knotted roots; shoots were exploding from its innards.

Its torso was one straight trunk, from which its arms and legs sprouted with a disproportionate thickness and roundness, like sections of pipe.

They are used to dealing with mutants on which a leg will sprout where a mouth part usually grows or a pair of wings will appear on an insect's back where two golf-club-like navigational organs are usually found.

She came to a huge human head from which five human legs sprouted.

Its legs, thin and bony as human ankles, sprouted from the thin band of segmented flesh that linked its headpiece and abdomen.

In Tank Mode, its legs sprout treaded "feet" for faster ground movement.

And legs sprouted from underwater bodies like pale periscopes throughout the evening.

An arm coalesced into a torso, the fingers of its hands stretching into separate arms and legs; a leg sprouted legs and a tail; the original tail grew a head.