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Using super-resolution fluorescence and electron microscopes, the researchers observed a detailed sequence of events involving a stiff shaft and a flexible, whiplike filament that starts out coiled around it within the nematocyst.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2022

One had a whiplike antenna that would hit him as he ran.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2022

These single-celled cousins of animals, endowed with a whiplike flagellum and a collar of shorter hairs, resemble the food-filtering "collar" cells that line the channels of sponges.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 28, 2018

Hence the children’s Sanskrit names and their long, whiplike tails of hair, which their father, stirring a bit of Sikh tradition into his ad-hoc doctrine, didn’t let them cut.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2015

They have long, arching, whiplike tails, whitish fur on the chest, and cream-colored fur on the back.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston