Definitions

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  • adjective having a base shaped like a claw; -- of flower petals.

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  • adjective Resembling a claw

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  • adjective resembling a claw

Etymologies

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claw +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The clawlike, heavily veined hand looks like a sea creature.

    Amy | clusterflock 2009

  • I blinked and caught a glimpse of a brown gnarled hand with black clawlike fingernails curling around my door.

    Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

  • He clutched a rolled-up piece of parchment with tiny hands studded with black clawlike nails.

    Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

  • I blinked and caught a glimpse of a brown gnarled hand with black clawlike fingernails curling around my door.

    Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

  • He clutched a rolled-up piece of parchment with tiny hands studded with black clawlike nails.

    Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

  • Something clawlike was reaching down at him, talonless but grasping.

    Maybe Maybe brian warfield 2011

  • "Use a clawlike movement, rather than a flat hand," Cunningham says, "and if your hair's long, don't apply the shampoo directly to the ends – lift the length of the hair and squeeze the crown so that the shampoo flows down to it."

    Three-minute fix ... hair-washing 2011

  • To the east is the Mississippi and its long, clawlike delta that seems to point to the site where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank.

    Gulf coast oil slick headed for Grand Isle, Louisiana 2010

  • Soliman, the sultan, is in cahoots with sinister aliens who slink across the stage, shrouded like mummies, with black faceplates and, in one case, clawlike appendages used as an extra set of legs.

    Anne Midgette revisits Wolf Trap's staging of Mozart's 'Zaide' 2010

  • The bottle slipped out of his clawlike hands and rolled away on the floor to where he could not reach it.

    Fearless John Callahan pushed boundaries of taste and humor with his art 2010

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