They possess six multi-jointed legs ending in thick claws, and an additional pair of forelimbs ending in sharp, manipulating claws.

Each alien had eight long, multi-jointed furry legs, thicker than large crab legs, and Abby thought about all the octagons contained in the ship's design.

His multi-jointed legs, however, scrabbled on of their own accord; his forehead strained against its confines, diminished, swelled again; the shell cracked, cold air flowed in.

The spheres coalesced into a black and vaguely hairy shape that threatened to develop three thin and multi-jointed legs.

Walking on four multi-jointed, chitinous-looking legs, depressing its own keys with two equally insectile three-fingered hands, brass gleaming through a web of scuffs and scratches, came an unaccompanied alto saxophone.

Like all Safehold mammals, it is six-limbed, but it looks like a cross between a hairy gila monster and an insect, with long, multi-jointed legs which actually arch higher than its spine.

Conway was silent for a few seconds while they walked briskly toward the FROB ward-Prilicla's six, multi-jointed and pencil-thin legs seeming to spread out all over the place, but somehow never actually getting underfoot.

The six thin, bony, tubular, multi-jointed legs project from slits where the bony carapace and underside join.

He remembered seeing them on televisionlittle spherical creatures about two centimeters in diameter attached to six radically symmetrical, multi-jointed legs almost ten centimeters long if fully extended.