platelike

They are large and platelike, and form the marsupium, in which the eggs and developing young are protected.

Crustacea 2008

Mature females have large, inwardly directed, platelike oostegites at the inner base of their anterior legs.

Crustacea 2008

If the local environment changes just slightly to prefer platelike growth over columnar growth, then the instability kicks in to immediately produce thin plates.

Mystery in The Air - The Panda's Thumb 2007

But for now, the explanation above of capped columns, for instance, includes these words: If the local environment changes just slightly to prefer platelike growth over columnar growth .

Mystery in The Air - The Panda's Thumb 2007

Disconcertingly, these could retract completely into their platelike central bodies and reemerge elsewhere.

Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

If a robot sees something round and platelike, it scans the object.

05/01/2004 - 06/01/2004 2004

If a robot sees something round and platelike, it scans the object.

Humanoid robots in Japan 2004

If a robot sees something round and platelike, it scans the object.

Archive 2004-05-01 2004

In addition to the corpuscles, there were smaller objects; flattened platelike affairs were rather common, for instance.

Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

The trunk of the hickory is unique in appearance as the bark separates from the tree in long platelike strips which hang on at one end and give the scraggly appearance from which the tree derives its name.

Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919