The antennae were heliotrope, fine, threadlike, and closely pressed to the head.

It was an infinitely fine, threadlike projection from the surface of the planet.

Caradoc's face went white, leaving threadlike purple veins showing on nose and cheeks.

More nervous than sanguine, Cristophe's bodily appearance was thin and threadlike, but wiry.

Her high-arched, threadlike brows were ruffled into a delicious frown.

It was a very dry voice; threadlike, but determined.

Deveining a prawn or shrimp removes the gray, threadlike intestinal track running along its back.

But the silk was thin, threadlike and slightly discolored.

So genes had to be carried on chromosomes-thethreadlike structures identified by Flemming three decades earlier.

The mycelium, the threadlike part of a fungus that often grows underground, is a favorite food.

He saw Lady Galloway, slim and threadlike, with silver hair and a face sensitive and superior.

I struck at this, and caught something threadlike.

Nothing else stirred; in the crisp still air the evening smoke of chimneys rose threadlike and vanished.

Yes, this little threadlike creature belongs to the same order as the big flat giant water bug.

The spinnerets of the females were working furiously now, spraying threadlike ova and pheronomes into the air.

The sacred gold is heated to a threadlike consistency so it can be stitched into the skin.'