rootlike

The top left photograph shows a white sky marked with a black, rootlike streak.

The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.

A holdfast is a rootlike structure present at the base of the alga.

The autochthon listened, his rootlike face twisted and dark.

The plants have no roots at all, but sometimes they develop modified leaves with a rootlike appearance, which anchor the plant to the bottom.

Kirk began digging until he found rootlike tendrils a few centimeters under the surface.

They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head.

It was perhaps four meters from tip to tail, its form vaguely rootlike, tapering at both ends.

The spikes were here in abundance, as well as the rootlike structures that composed the fringe.

The fossils are made of infilled dendritic rootlike burrows.

It grows from a rootlike rhizome, with buds along it somewhat like the eyes of a potato.

The rootlike toes grasped the rocks.

In the simplest forms, the members of the colony are linked only by rootlike projections from their undersides known as stolons.

It stood for several seconds, then the rootlike appendages coming out of its sides seemed to go soft, and the wheel toppled onto its side.

The tiny rootlike tubers dry out very quickly and should be set in the ground when moist and viable, usually during the summertime.

Small, wiry bodies, with bloated stomachs, covered with scraggly, rootlike hair.

The nightmarish vision raised one thick, twisted, powerful, vinelike arm and thrust a rootlike finger at Tommy.

They did not breathe, but absorbed both their food and liquid gas through rootlike feelers on which they stood and moved.

The dull purple rootlike rhizomorphs of honey mushrooms curl around the smooth wood of a nearby log.

They feed by digging rootlike structures into bone to access fats, oils and nutrients from the skeletons that they can then absorb.

In this case, the extreme and immediate heat of the lightning ( 2500 C) creates hollow, branching rootlike structures called fulgurite via fusion.

In nature, vitrification of quartz occurs when lightning strikes sand, forming hollow, branching rootlike structures called fulgurite.

Dwarf mistletoe is a plant whose rootlike structures grow under the bark of living trees, not only in young twigs but also in branches and steins.

The lower cortex often bears rootlike fungal structures known as rhizines, which serve to attach the thallus to the substrate on which it grows.

Rhizomorphs are "rootlike" structures composed of dense bundles of mycelium, which aid in the survival, and spread of the fungus.