Cordlike

The scales were rough and sharp, the cordlike muscles underneath bulged and squeezed. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)

He was taken from his mother in 1986 after state workers found scars on his face, cordlike marks on his abdomen and cigarette burns on his neck, shoulder blade and buttocks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The cordlike appendages advanced across the floor slowly and silently, carrying with them the aroma of cloves and vanilla. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2003)

One warm summer day some visitors arrived, including a woman who was wearing a long skirt made out of some very light material and cinched with a cordlike belt with tassels that hung down in the back. ❋ STANLEY COREN (2002)

They have begun to understand that they are attached to the universe through a system of cordlike energies, that Soul bonds them in harmonic Oneness with all other Souls. ❋ Patricia L. Pereira (1999)

I fastened this fragile, narrow, improvised cordlike belt of twisted and rolled cloth about me, knotting it at the left hip. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1986)

Cylindrical pots, with wavy handles or simple cordlike ornamentation, appear to have been especially favored. ❋ Various (N/A)

Outstanding veins were tracing cordlike lines on his temples. ❋ Charles Neville Buck (1904)

The waving fronds of the delicate feathery bamboo were everywhere visible, while creepers in endless variety trailed their long cordlike stems and gaudy blossoms in all directions. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

The pustules of glanders (farcy buds) are to be distinguished by the watery contents and the cordlike swelling, extending from the pustules along the line of the veins, and those of boils by the inflammation and sloughing out of a core of the true skin. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

They were used only for the first ploughing, in breaking up the wild sod woven into a tough mass, chiefly by the cordlike roots of perennial grasses, reinforced by the tap-roots of oak and hickory bushes, called "grubs," some of which were more than a century old and four or five inches in diameter. ❋ John Muir (1876)

The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene. ❋ Aria (2010)

Technically speaking, "neuronal" means "pertaining to neurons," and "neural" means "pertaining to nerves, which are the cordlike bundles of fibres made up of neurons." ❋ Unknown (2009)