tonguelike

IPA: tˈʌŋɫaɪk

Examples of "tonguelike" in Sentences

If you'd like to avoid the bitter green tonguelike centers, inspect each lotus seed to ensure it is tongue free.
She could see the beige tonguelike ribbon sticking out of the bottom, and the gentle crease etched along its spine.
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.
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.
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.
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.