spikelike

IPA: spˈaɪkɫaɪk

Examples of "spikelike" in Sentences

In all species, the males are smaller than the females and bear tiny spikelike horns.
Maize, millet, and sorghum push thorugh the soil with spikelike tips which aid emergence.
Maize's large seeds and spikelike emergence gives it the best clod-handling ability of the reference crops.
Aziz then turned to Yassin, who was sticking a long spikelike object through one of the holes he had drilled.
Position these spikelike poles at about 30-40 cm intervals in a band about 2 meters wide for a barrier to elephants.
Long stalactites menaced my head, and nasty little spikelike formations underfoot threatened to impale me if I should slip and fall.
Another was the hoat, a puma-sized predator that impaled its prey on spikelike teeth that grew horizontally from its expansive mouth and flattened jaws.
"Another was the hoat, a puma-sized predator that impaled its prey on spikelike teeth that grew horizontally from its expansive mouth and flattened jaws.
It was now near the end of the day and the time he reached the first spikelike branch which gave him an opportunity to rest, the sun was preparing its pyrotechnics of Florida eventide.