roof-like

They hold their wings roof-like over their body and often have colored or mottled bodies.

Insecta (Aquatic) 2008

Pyralid adults can be identified by their wings that are held roof-like over the body when at rest.

Insecta (Aquatic) 2008

They have large, brown, membranous wings that are held roof-like over the body when at rest.

Insecta (Aquatic) 2008

And yet I know that there are people who crave the cake, leaving only a roof-like frosting shell behind.

A Confession 2004

Roof I call it, just as the poets in their poverty sometimes describe the infinite ethereal sky by that word; but it was no more roof-like and hindering to the soaring spirit than the higher clouds that float in changing forms and tints, and like the foliage chasten the intolerable noonday beams.

Green Mansions 2004

I never could have imagined it possible for camels to ascend the roof-like slope of rock up which they had to clamber for the last 50 yards, and indeed, one poor animal did fall, and injured itself so that it had to be unloaded and taken back, whereupon those Bedouin who did not own it heartlessly regretted that it had not been killed, as they would have liked some of its flesh for supper.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

It was raining, as usual, and not until the day was well advanced did she venture from the protection afforded by the roof-like palm-leaves overhead.

The Black Phantom

Close by the lake, there was a thick jungle of trees - a place where the branches matted together, in a roof-like structure, leaving a cleared space below.

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

A New York steamer had docked that morning, and the first-class cars were packed with venturesome travelers in their stout campaign outfits in which to rough it -- in the Tivoli and the sight-seeing motors -- in their roof-like cork helmets and green veils for the terrible

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

The frame work of the bed was also of the Chinese blackwood and carried, especially on the posts that held the roof-like canopy, finely executed carvings with the chief motive the conventional dragon devouring the sun.

Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910