ribbonlike

But this specimen lacked the rachis; it just had barbs and barbules down its ribbonlike tail.

From its vantage point at Saturn, Cassini sees a belt rather than a ribbonlike structure, a team led by Krimigis also reports in Science.

Sporting a quartet of long, ribbonlike feathers with barbs arranged in vanes, pigeon-size Epidexipteryx may provide the earliest evidence of a dinosaur flaunting its feathers for display.