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

Macy and Dylan Wald, in whose pas de deux you could easily forget where one dancer left off and the other began, stood in a series of beautifully birdlike poses; in a repeated one, their bent legs formed an eloquent triangle as they morphed into one shape.

From Seattle Times

The previously reported 1918 flu strains, both from late in the pandemic, carry two mutations in this gene that help influenza avoid the human body’s innate antiviral defenses; the German soldiers’ sequences were more birdlike.

From Science Magazine