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But other experts believe Lucy’s hooklike hands and her flexible shoulders suggest she was a decent tree-climber.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2016

Hughes engineers theorized that the satellite might have failed because a hooklike "trigger" that projected from its side was not fully engaged.

From Time Magazine Archive

Programmed by computer, the robots' hooklike hands lift heavy steel parts and wield welding torches with better-than-human precision.

From Time Magazine Archive

The left clavicle is present in scattered fragments, its dorsal hooklike end being intact.

From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)

On the other hand, the lower jaw of the Marsupial is characterised by a peculiar hooklike process, and this is commonly found in Mesozoic jaws.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph