branchlike

At the darkest recess of the room there seemed a crack or fissure leading down and away into dirt; and from within that shadowed hole faintly visible were a pair of twitchy branchlike probes.

Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011

  Two victims of the night laid still in the trail with their discarded long, branchlike objects  tossed to their side.

dinner time 2010

Most lung cancers occur in the branchlike system of the bronchial tubes.

Lasers To The Rescue: Killing Cancer With Light 2008

He held up the long branchlike map Venera had taken from the tourist station.

Sun of Suns 2006

His right hand clutched the end of a speaking tube and he alternated between sighting along the branchlike map and peering through the periscope.

Sun of Suns 2006

He clasped four of his branchlike arms behind his squat, wide body and gestured with the remaining two.

In Alien Hands Shatner, William 1997

A rare carnivorous plant, the black willow masked itself as log or tree and preyed on hapless creatures it lulled to sleep beneath its spreading, branchlike ten'tacles.

The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

Using forceps, he stripped several of the branchlike projections or “barbs” from both sides of the shaft and, stationing himself at the stereoscopic microscope, placed them on a thin film of xylene that he had dropped on a slide.

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

Using forceps, he stripped several of the branchlike projections or “barbs” from both sides of the shaft and, stationing himself at the stereoscopic microscope, placed them on a thin film of xylene that he had dropped on a slide.

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

Using forceps, he stripped several of the branchlike projections or “barbs” from both sides of the shaft and, stationing himself at the stereoscopic microscope, placed them on a thin film of xylene that he had dropped on a slide.

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993