whiplike
Americanadjective
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The primary species of rat in both New York and Los Angeles is Rattus norvegicus, the brown rat: a midsize rodent that has a whiplike tail and is resilient, intuitive and remarkably fecund.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
One had a whiplike antenna that would hit him as he ran.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2022
A sponge consists of a network of interconnected canals, which include small digestive chambers lined with specialized digestive cells with whiplike projections.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 3, 2021
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
The whiplike tail brought them swiftly to his side.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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