birdlike

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The film includes nods to D&D’s decades of accumulated lore — a birdlike aarakocra in one scene, an offhand reference to “Baldur’s Gate” in another — without distracting from the plot.

From Los Angeles Times

“Only in pterosaurs do we see something like the birdlike condition,” she said.

From New York Times

People might assume that sounding birdlike would mean these dinosaurs were tweeting like meadowlarks, Dr. Arbour said.

From New York Times

Coloring the score are the sounds of bells, whistling, birdlike cries and the growl of a low bass voice.

From New York Times

It’s possible to chart the eras of Cale’s vast career by his succession of iconic haircuts: the chic, chin-length pageboy of his Velvet Underground days; the greasy bed head of his proto-punk ’70s; an asymmetric art-crop as the ’80s became the ’90s; and the feathery, birdlike style in which he now wears his distinguished, white-gray locks, set off by a playfully Mephistophelian soul patch.

From New York Times