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But the leglike structure — with bone, nerves and the hint of a toe — is more complex and more leggy than Dr. Murugan expected for a first try.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

Over the next 18 months, the frogs gradually regrew what was lost, forming a new leglike structure with nerves, muscles, bones and even toelike projections.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

One end of it tapered down in a thick ridge; and this ridge had a deep, horizontal cleft running along it which made it appear as though it were divided into two leglike members.

From The Planetoid of Peril by Ernst, Paul

Overhead elevated trains with a shrill grinding of the wheels stopped at the station, which upon its leglike pillars seemed to resemble some monstrous kind of crab squatting over the street.

From Men, Women, and Boats by Crane, Stephen

The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg