Meanings of rootlike in English

As they leaned against the rootlike branches of the mangroves dark shadows moved above them.

Only when they moved could you see that they had branchlike arms and crooked, rootlike legs.

The rootlike fibers in the robe were a reddish tan, the color of maple leaves in autumn.

The rootlike toes grasped the rocks.

And few vines or rootlike creepers swung from overhead to brush against them, for these too had snapped away as the reaver army marched beneath.

Rootlike bushes hung from the roof, yellow and white tendrils often cascading down like frozen waterfalls.