mouthlike

There were a few locals about, mostly Keklir, a bipedal race with short, powerful limbs and faces dominated by a wide, tapering snout with two mouthlike openings.

Orphaned Worlds, 1st Draft, 2nd Excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

If one didn't pay rigorous attention or have an excellent navigator like Jeeves, it would be very easy to miss the shadowy, mouthlike opening to the place.

Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

A golden dome peered above the waves, and now and then, from one of a dozen mouthlike openings, a spacecraft would emerge; their ships were shaped like spiders, or butterflies with delicate, spindlelike antennae.

Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003

The mouthlike opening could easily swallow the logs and branches bunched against the mountainside above.

The Hour of the Gate Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

His voice was neither hostile nor welcoming, and it came not from the mouthlike indentation in the furry face, but from the waving tentacles.

A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle, Madelein 1962

His voice was neither hostile nor welcoming, and it came not from the mouthlike indentation in the furry face, but from the waving tentacles.

A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle, Madeleine 1962

Another of the mouthlike openings around the edge of the arena opened, and one of the furry people shambled out, weaving weakly from side to side as he came, a spear in his scaled paws.

Star Born Andre Norton 1958

Another of the mouthlike openings around the edge of the arena opened, and one of the furry people shambled out, weaving weakly from side to side as he came, a spear in his scaled paws.

Star Flight Norton, Andre 1954

Objects of this kind, like this piece of bamboo, have a mouthlike form and vary from 30 to 60 centimeters in length.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

That wooden box, with its mouthlike slit was like an insatiable monster that was constantly fed, yet was still gaping for more.

I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906