tonguelike

She could see the beige tonguelike ribbon sticking out of the bottom, and the gentle crease etched along its spine.

Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

She could see the beige tonguelike ribbon sticking out of the bottom, and the gentle crease etched along its spine.

Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

She could see the beige tonguelike ribbon sticking out of the bottom, and the gentle crease etched along its spine.

Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

Though they are not quite as extensive as they once were, you can still find spruce-fir and pine forests in New England, in the Lake States, and in a tonguelike extension along the Appalachian range.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

Though they are not quite as extensive as they once were, you can still find spruce-fir and pine forests in New England, in the Lake States, and in a tonguelike extension along the Appalachian range.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

Though they are not quite as extensive as they once were, you can still find spruce-fir and pine forests in New England, in the Lake States, and in a tonguelike extension along the Appalachian range.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

Her 1926 version was an elegant rendering of tonguelike, velvety, purplish-gray petals uncurling into “an abyss of blackness into which the timid scarcely dare peer,” teased Henry McBride.

Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

From the palm of the thing's handlike body emerges a pearl-escent TUBULE. like a tapered piece of intestine, which slithers tonguelike over the inside of the glass.

Fail-Safe, &c. Hook, Sidney 1964

If you'd like to avoid the bitter green tonguelike centers, inspect each lotus seed to ensure it is tongue free.

Viet World Kitchen 2009

Discussions of evolution often glorify the beautifully apt forms: orchids with nectar recesses just the right length for the tonguelike structure of a certain moth, or harmless butterflies with the same wing colors as a poisonous neighbor.

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