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BELL-SHAPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bell-shaped mean?
• BELL-SHAPED (adjective)
The adjective BELL-SHAPED has 1 sense:
1. having a convex shape that resembles a bell
Familiarity information: BELL-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a convex shape that resembles a bell
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Context examples
It was a man who walked inside a framework made of bent canes so that he was enclosed on all sides in a bell-shaped cage.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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