quill-like
- a word derived from quill.
Example Sentences
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Bristling with quill-like proto-feathers, it looks like a roadrunner that mated with an anteater.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2016
One by one, Zeus searches for a particular code, dips into the corresponding well with a fine, quill-like probe and picks up a minuscule droplet of liquid DNA.
From Time Magazine Archive
With them also the scale became quill-like, and was developed into a heat-retaining covering; and they too underwent modifications, similar in kind though different in detail, to become warm-blooded and independent of basking.
From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Most of them wore necklaces of "thaqua"—the quill-like white shell which is brought from the Pacific, and serves them for small change—and heavy earrings of the same shells, a quarter of a yard long.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various
Traces of it remain in the squids, but transformed into an internal quill-like, supporting, not defensive, skeleton.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason
