For example, the minerals in clay form small, flat, platelike structures.

It is called the plated lizard because of the platelike scales on the back.

In platy structure, the units are flat and platelike.

The creatures were armored with a platelike, translucent shell.

These are shallow rounded depressions formed by up to six platelike layers of tissue parallel to the body surface.

Silvery platelike scales covered its body.

Previously, planetary scientists had suggested that the platelike features had formed out of lava flows.

"Platelike" root morphologies occur where growth is impeded.

Lizard scales vary in form from tubercular to platelike, or imbricate (overlapping).

Other works reflect an appreciation of African art or the platelike faces of certain kinds of owls.

It contains the semicircular to subrectangular platelike carapace.

The streets of this vicus were paved with stone, its roofs covered with platelike terracotta tiles.

Fire moss reproduces vegetatively via protonemata (threadlike or platelike growths).

Remarkably, Dürer created a good likeness, capturing the platelike folds of that animal's thick skin and its menacing appearance.

The robot's platelike skull swiveled; it fixed the glaring red eye of its sensor array on the final spot where humans were still hiding.

Scales on the head are also granular, unlike the platelike scales of scincomorph and anguimorph lizards.

These are formed by oostegites - platelike expansions from the basal segments (coxae) of the appendages.

Chambers on the umbilical side have triangular to platelike umbilical extensions as with other rasalinids.

Then Jack saw that they were not feet - the man was walking on huge platelike constructions, the Blasted Lands equivalent of snowshoes.

The sea scorpion had heaved its broad, platelike prosoma out of the water; this crablike head-body was half a meter across.

They were protected under platelike appendages (which actually formed the apparent 'belly' of Eurypterus) known as Blatfüsse.

Beyond, three, about equal, much narrower, somewhat sickle-shaped, marginal ones with a small triangular, scarcely perceptible, platelike one on the outer edge.

The sensor had great platelike eyes, and its furred chitin sprouted long coiled antennae that twitched feebly as the workers bore it along.

The rash appears as raised red plaques (platelike areas) and scaly patches with sharply defined borders that may blister and ooze.

At the center on the aboral side is the madreporite-a perforated platelike structure, and on the interambulacra are the four tiny genital pores.