Meanings of like protrusion in English

Hundreds of tiny organisms cluster together to create a gleaming purple body and a translucent sail- like protrusion that looks like a single animal.

SSA makes numerous primary vesicle- like protrusions and pits in between.

The surface membrane, being the main SSA subsystem, makes numerous vesicle- like protrusions with different ultrastructural patterns.

Lamellipodia are sheet- like protrusions formed during migration or phagocytosis and comprise a network of actin filaments.

It had two bristly black antler- like protrusions at the front of its head, and a tail-like projection from its rear.

Dimple- like depressions occur at the icosahedral twofold axes, canyon- like regions encircle the fivefold axes, and spike- like protrusions decorate the threefold axes.

Three such motifs form the rigid stable trimeric structures (mushroom- like protrusions) at the threefold axes, with hydrophobic depressions at their distal surface.

'Dead in a year,' remarked the desk sergeant, a new-born with a snout- like protrusion in the centre of his face.