Paddle Shaped

Pale, shimmering and more elegant than its name would imply, the palm-size creature swims upright, navigating by moving two body-length rows of thin, paddle-shaped protrusions. ❋ Post (2010)

Manatees – those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails – are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. ❋ AP/The Huffington Post (2010)

Manatees — those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails — are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was a carved piece of wood, vaguely paddle-shaped. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010)

Then Verlin tucked the flat paddle-shaped not-a-lute beneath his chin and began to play. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Riken's Ri-Man, for example, has soft silicone skin, a wheeled base and two paddle-shaped arms strong enough to lift a child from a bed (the company is currently practicing the technology on dolls); its vision, hearing, smelling and touching sensors allow it to locate voices and respond to spoken commands. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You can see them in this image, although it really doesn't do them justice—they're thin, membranous folds that make the tail paddle-shaped. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The paper was fixed to a paddle-shaped wooden board and protected by a sheet of transparent antler horn. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

I was crouched down, trying to take a picture of some pretty frost etched leaves and was scooching back a bit to get a better shot when I literally stumbled over it, this flat, paddle-shaped bleached object. ❋ Weeme (2004)

The publisher of Bride's magazine, Deborah Fine, gave out small, paddle-shaped, battery-operated, Bride's - embossed objects to the magazine's staff over the holidays. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Eyes emerged, then paddle-shaped fins adjusted: its spin stopped in an instant. ❋ Niven, Larry (1995)

They gripped branches with two forward claws, but the little paddle-shaped wings aft blurred with their vibration. ❋ Niven, Larry (1995)

Yet there it stood, on three wide landing legs with paddle-shaped feet, its sharp nose pointed up at us. ❋ Niven, Larry (1994)