root-like

Even as Henry charged him, his root-like fingers bored into Moxey, burrowing through fur and skin.

DELUGE (Part Twenty-Four) – Brian Keene 2009

Others live entirely outside pipes, being either rooted in the ground or even walking about on root-like legs.

Piranha Plant | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

Hardly a day goes by without some eager researcher letting us know that we should eat more beets (a purple root-like substance that I've spent my life avoiding) or warning us that our memories may suffer if we don't do more calisthenics.

Deborah Blum: Science and Exercise: Nag, Nag 2009

I am particularly intrigued by the specialty shops – especially those where curious gnarled root-like herbs $100.00 a pop in some cases beckon – and likewise – hint at secret ingredients lurking beneath their ominous skins waiting to cure all ills.

San Francisco’s Chinatown is gateway to mystical east! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

Inside the host, the parasite grows long, root-like tendrils throughout the crab's body, eventually emerging as a bump on the its underside.

The Speculist: Almost a Title 2006

Their lower slopes folded into root-like shapes that sank into a wide, sandy strip of land caught between mountains and sea.

Voice of the Gods Canavan, Trudi 2006

Ground coriander absorbs a lot of water thanks to its thick dry husk; ginger, turmeric, and galangal are starchy root-like rhizomes, and their starch dissolves during prolonged simmering to provide a thickening tangle of long molecular chains.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Ground coriander absorbs a lot of water thanks to its thick dry husk; ginger, turmeric, and galangal are starchy root-like rhizomes, and their starch dissolves during prolonged simmering to provide a thickening tangle of long molecular chains.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

And then the Lord withdrew His finger, and there were fibres and delicate root-like filaments adhering to the finger, and they were the nerve-threads of the filaments.

Hunger 2003

There may, for a moment, have been some golden, vaguely root-like or manlike figure beginning to form among the brown and bright cream shadows and light here.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978