Used attributively and predicatively to mean ‘resembling a finger’; forms take periphrastic comparison
The cactus has finger-like branches.
У этого кактуса пальцеобразные ветви.
Occasionally used adverbially in comparisons of manner (‘the smoke rose finger-like’)
Smoke curled finger-like into the night sky.
Дым пальцеобразно вился в ночное небо.