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Shady conditions at ground level favor woody climbers that include strangler figs (Ficus spp.) and the cablelike Gnetum, an unusual climbing gymnosperm.

Kayah-Karen montane rain forests 2008

Slowly, the Tuuqalian stopped swinging the dead Vilenjji, letting the lifeless mass dangle from one pair of cablelike tentacles.

Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

From within the thick mat of dirty yellow-green quills four cablelike tentacles emerged, two from each side of the barrel-like torso, below the equally long eyestalks.

Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

Both thickened into cablelike " or serpentlike " tentacles.

Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

Three cablelike tentacles writhed in a complex gesture of accentuation.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

Both Lepidodendron and Sigillaria were anchored by means of great cablelike underground stems, which ran to long distances through the marshy ground.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

More keen and capable to penetrate were those thready little fibres than the irresistible water-seeking tap-root of the cottonwood or the mesquite of the plains; more powerful to clasp and to hold than the cablelike roots of the rock-embracing cedar.

Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878

AT&T announced Tuesday it is rolling out a series of free upgrades for customers of its cablelike TV service - U-verse - that runs over the company's Internet lines.

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" Reaching out and forward, the huge yet philosophically inclined Tuuqalian scooped the dog up in his left pair of cablelike tentacles.

Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

Total Home DVR "as part of the phone company's cablelike TV service.

U.S. News 2008