BARREL-SHAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barrel-shaped mean? 

• BARREL-SHAPED (adjective)
  The adjective BARREL-SHAPED has 1 sense:

1. having the general shape of a barrel

  Familiarity information: BARREL-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARREL-SHAPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the general shape of a barrel

Similar:

circular; round (having the shape or form of a circle)

 Context examples 

A type of osteogenesis imperfecta characterized by bone fractures, bone deformities, short stature, poor muscle development, barrel-shaped chest, and triangular face.

(Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type III, NCI Thesaurus)

It was not until one of these creatures wriggled on to a sand-bank within a few hundred yards of us, and exposed a barrel-shaped body and huge flippers behind the long serpent neck, that Challenger, and Summerlee, who had joined us, broke out into their duet of wonder and admiration.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)