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BRICK-SHAPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brick-shaped mean?
• BRICK-SHAPED (adjective)
The adjective BRICK-SHAPED has 1 sense:
1. shaped like a brick
Familiarity information: BRICK-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shaped like a brick
Similar:
cubic; three-dimensional (having the shape of a cube; having three dimensions)
Context examples
A species of enveloped and brick-shaped viruses in the Poxviridae family and Molluscipoxvirus genus.
(Molluscum Contagiosum Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of enveloped, brick-shaped viruses in the family Poxviridae.
(Molluscipoxvirus, NCI Thesaurus)
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