ribbonlike
Americanadjective
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When Dr. Caron stuck several of the newly gained specimens under a high-powered scanning microscope, he spotted a ribbonlike structure studded with recurved teeth on both sides, like the business end of a chain saw.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
A magnificent field of purple lupines unrolled into a sprawling lavender carpet, which extended to a ribbonlike river that curled around the hotel.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
But the ancient ribbonlike tail feathers are fundamentally different, with a shaft that’s more like a half-cylinder, flattened and open on one side.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2018
As with Moore, too, these passages are almost impossible to quote effectively: they are made of superlong, ribbonlike sentences distributed across white space, often broken against their syntax by an inflexible line.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
Our elbows, which touched the long, ribbonlike leaves, left a slight noise behind us, and I was seized, as I had never been before, by the powerful singular emotion which marshes cause in me.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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