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CLUB-SHAPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does club-shaped mean?
• CLUB-SHAPED (adjective)
The adjective CLUB-SHAPED has 2 senses:
1. shaped in the form of the black trefoil or clover leaf on some playing cards
2. shaped in the form of a club that is larger at one end
Familiarity information: CLUB-SHAPED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shaped in the form of the black trefoil or clover leaf on some playing cards
Similar:
formed (having or given a form or shape)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shaped in the form of a club that is larger at one end
Similar:
formed (having or given a form or shape)
Context examples
The club-shaped endings of pineocyte processes terminate in perivascular spaces surrounding capillaries.
(Pineocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
A rounded, club-shaped, nonciliated cell found in between ciliated cells in the epithelium of respiratory and terminal bronchioles.
(Clara Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
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