Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a leg or some aspect of one.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective resembling or functioning like a leg

Etymologies

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leg +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Like other frogfish — a subset of anglerfish — H. psychedelica has leglike fins on both sides of its body.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • There he could see more creatures—a blob with leglike things that it used to crawl like a wood louse, eel-shaped creatures that would swim like a fish in water.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • There he could see more creatures—a blob with leglike things that it used to crawl like a wood louse, eel-shaped creatures that would swim like a fish in water.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • There he could see more creatures—a blob with leglike things that it used to crawl like a wood louse, eel-shaped creatures that would swim like a fish in water.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • She opened her mouth, jaw unhinging, the clicking, leglike rods of segmented metal reaching outwards, welcoming her brethren through her lips.

    365 tomorrows » J. Loseth : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • The ridge was shaped like a giant centipede, with leglike spurs extending on each side.

    Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002

  • For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods – any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages – in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago.

    Archive 2008-06-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods – any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages – in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago.

    Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica ReBecca Foster 2008

  • She opened her mouth, jaw unhinging, the clicking, leglike rods of segmented metal reaching outwards, welcoming her brethren through her lips.

    365 tomorrows » 2006 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • The leglike stilts point vertically down from the horizontal pentagonal starfish.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

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