leglike
- a word derived from leg.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. µ They have mandibles, modified a poison fa?gs, leglike palpi, simple eyes, abdomen without segments, and spinnerets for spinning a web.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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
Others of these reptiles went back to the sea, lost the leglike development of their limbs and regained the flipper form, though the bones of the fingers and toes are singularly distinguishable in the paddle.
From The Meaning of Evolution by Schmucker, Samuel Christian
