The color pattern is whitish or pinkish, with numerous, close, oblique, zigzag, radiating purplish-brown lines extending to the purple or crimson basal callus.
Adults are brown with dark zigzag lines across the wings.
The twigs are slender and zigzag, nearly black in color, spotted with lighter lenticels.
The apical whorls are eroded, the following dull cinereous or purplish-black, marked with several spiral rows of white spots, or with longitudinal zigzag white stripes.
The flight displays begin as the male pursues the female, who flies in zigzagging evasive patterns.
Zigzagging and twisting, he tried to get away.
Hordes of skating enthusiasts zigzagging on the stretch marked for them were a visual delight to many.
The painting depicts a lumberjack standing before a landscape of logs zigzagging in a pattern.
He said he already saw the van, zigzagging prompting him to stop but his van was still hit.
It is often run in the snow; and then you cross small towns with zigzagging streets covered with rails and gutters.