many-jointed

He had long, soft, many-jointed arms ending in a tentacled grip, and his neck was many-jointed in the usual way, but exceptionally short and thick.

First Men in the Moon

He had an impression of many eyes, of a dense crew of squat bodies, of long, many-jointed limbs hauling at their mooring ropes to bring the thing down upon him.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells

Half a dozen many-jointed arms allowed it to move rapidly and with great flexibility through the branches and vines.

Drowning World

Half a dozen many-jointed arms allowed it to move rapidly and with great flexibility through the branches and vines.

Drowning World

Before he could inquire a short, spiderlike creature scrabbled through the door on a forest of many-jointed legs and shepherded them into

In Alien Hands

It was broad and flat as a board and was equipped with many-jointed arms as well as an antenna.

Planet Mechanica

The many-jointed arms above the operating table were carefully carving a phantom patient.

A World Out of Time

Mark held Weaver's indignant message up to his eyes with one many-jointed claw, while his other three forelimbs gestured uncertainly.

The Worshippers

He has himself furnished us an analysis of the train of representations and arguments of which this protracted and many-jointed oration was made up.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864

The crinoids are an early and simple form of the large family of star-fishes; the animal is little more than a stomach, surrounded by tentacula to provide itself with food, and mounted upon a many-jointed stalk, so as to resemble a flower upon its stem.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges