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Even more bewildering was the fact that several species I had recently seen elsewhere in the archipelago looked so different what had been, say, a small shrub on another island had magically transformed into a vinelike tree here that I never would have recognized them without my colleagues' help.

Robert J. Cabin: World's Most Unique and Endangered Forest Needs Our Help Robert J. Cabin 2011

Even more bewildering was the fact that several species I had recently seen elsewhere in the archipelago looked so different what had been, say, a small shrub on another island had magically transformed into a vinelike tree here that I never would have recognized them without my colleagues' help.

Robert J. Cabin: World's Most Unique and Endangered Forest Needs Our Help Robert J. Cabin 2011

The vegetation changed from pine and manzanita to aspen and acacia, with long vinelike tendrils of wild strawberries growing parasitically over the rock face, intermixed with ferns and bottlebrush and poison sumac.

Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

It had a thick vinelike root wrapped around the trunk that would make for easy climbing.

The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009

It had a thick vinelike root wrapped around the trunk that would make for easy climbing.

The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009

It had a thick vinelike root wrapped around the trunk that would make for easy climbing.

The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009

The cortex, or outer layer of the brain, houses a thicket of 10 billion vinelike nerve cells, which communicate by relaying chemical and electrical impulses.

Memory 2008

Fifty yards ahead on the right was a rutted lane, its center filled with dark green vinelike weeds, that led toward the hill overlooking Finduma.

The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

"It is fairly small, with vinelike branches," Cheiron said.

Harpy Thyme Anthony, Piers, 1934- 1994

There were more of the vinelike things, and small metal objects.

The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987