leglike

The last four pairs are usually leglike (giving spiders their eight legs).

Many chordates have four feet, legs or leglike appendages (Tetrapods).

The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike.

Poking out of this spreading, vaguely leglike mess is a foot that looks remarkably undamaged.

Armlike, leglike members quivered and jerked.

The telopodite is recognizably leglike in structure and consists of three segments plus an apical claw.

In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.

All the officers on the bridge saw that a Promethean's large, squat body spread out like a pear, and four leglike tentacles were attached at the bottom.

More laterally on the stipes is a jointed, leglike palp made up of a number of segments; in Orthoptera there are five.

In another particularly assertive piece, easily the exhibition's edgiest work, a central red configuration sprouts leglike appendages and takes on the character of an anthropomorphic creature.

Many species of flies have leglike patterns on their wings, and the newly discovered jumping spider mimicry is probably a widespread phenomenon, Mr. Greene said.

They resembled the sentient Polarians in broad outline, just as the trees of Earth resembled men, with their leglike roots and armlike branches and stiffly erect bearing.

Three years ago, in his 27th year as a fisherman, he caught one of the world's rarest fish - a 157-pound coelacanth, a fish with leglike fins that scientists call a living fossil.

Sure enough, situated on top of the building was a small Sindareen vessel of the, style commonly called a Spider, so nicknamed for its odd sectional, style and eight leglike extensions.

He walked slowly across the room toward the bathroom, forcing himself forward a step at a time, afraid (and increasingly certain) that the red hump with the leglike extrusions was all that remained of his friend Beaver.

Scientists who have observed the fish from a miniature submarine have found that it actually does not use its leglike fins, but sometimes performs headstands and swims upside down as it lolls along the ocean floor.

It looked something like a circular cluster of a dozen pine cones, with fuzz all over, but there were little leglike members coming out of it-a dozen of them that went into rapid motion as he looked.