snakelike

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This multipronged approach revealed that while other reptiles have evolved many snakelike traits -- 25 different groups of lizards also lost their limbs, for instance -- only snakes experienced this level of explosive diversification.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024

“And it’s hard to think of an actor with a naturally hungrier look than Ron Cephas Jones, the tall, beanpole-thin, snakelike actor who portrays the title character.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Small fish float belly-up alongside snakelike tubes of irrigation piping.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2023

Four simply depict it — Nellie Mae Rowe, Mrs. Nellie May Rowe — in extravagant, curling and in one instance, snakelike cursive.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

She had to struggle because the moment she had landed, the plant had started to twist snakelike tendrils around her ankles.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling