The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals.
The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood.
Slowly he clenched his fingers, then opened them again, repeating the process over and over again while needlelike pains shot through his hands.
Connel took the small needlelike microphone in his hand and spoke into it as the reel of sound tape unwound slowly.
At recurrent seasons there is a fly that deposits a diminutive egg underneath the skin of human beings by means of a needlelike organ, and the larva of which produces an extremely disagreeable sensation, sometimes followed by fever.
They are covered with needlelike thorns and their sting is extremely painful and annoying.
The best field marks are small size, small head, slender neck and needlelike bill.
It can be distinguished from other shore birds by its needlelike bill and small head and by the absence of white in its wings.
It was a long, needlelike body with a glass-inclosed cabin near the center.
Below theneedlelike body hung a misshapen globe, like the bulging ovipositor of some strange insect.
Flop went Papayuchisew on his back, and Baree buried his needlelike teeth in the bird's breast.
Unerringly he launched himself at the drowsy partridge's throat, and his needlelike teeth sank through feathers into flesh.
The name acanthodes refers to its many spines, a gray-yellow fringe of seven or eight stout needlelike bristles, and eight or nine pink and yellow banded radial and central thorns one to two inches long, the lowest one sharply hooked.
The spicules are tawny or yellow and brown, while the needlelike crooked spines are white or a light red-brown.
A very few needlelike spicules develop along the stem, crowned by the large striking lemon-colored flowers with orange-red centers, nearly three inches long and as broad, opening in the morning and folding up in late afternoon.
Numerous stiff, needlelike thorns form a dense spiny yellowish coating over the entire mass.
They are slender and needlelikewith loose papery sheaths, silvery-white and glistening, giving the species its specific name.
The edges of the joints are also fringed with needlelike thorns which are dangerous to handle.
These disks are covered with fringes of yellow and brown spicules, needlelike and tough, and the edges also are fringed with them.
The flowers are about three inches long and are yellow, and the fruit, which is club-shaped and about three inches long, is covered with white cottony hairs and needlelike spicules.
The radial spines, slender and needlelike and wide-spreading, loosely interlocking with those of the other spine clusters, are white with brown tips.
The plant has from thirteen to seventeen ribs, on which twenty or more sharp needlelike radial spines appear, white, and a half-inch or so long.
One by one the remaining ships moved alongside until all six had their needlelike noses pointed toward the pale satellite of the Moon.
One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "needlelike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
