HEART-SHAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heart-shaped mean? 

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

1. (of a leaf) shaped like a heart

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEART-SHAPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a leaf) shaped like a heart

Synonyms:

cordate; cordiform; heart-shaped

Similar:

simple; unsubdivided ((botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions)

 Context examples 

Scientists are offering several new scenarios to explain the formation of Pluto’s frozen heart-shaped feature.

(Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto’s Icy Heart, NASA)

NASA’s New Horizons mission has discovered a new, apparently less lofty mountain range on the lower-left edge of Pluto’s best known feature, the bright, heart-shaped region named Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region).

(New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

Most prominent are an elongated dark feature at the equator, informally known as the whale, and a large heart-shaped bright area measuring some 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) across on the right.

(A “Heart” from Pluto as Flyby Begins, NASA)

It has a broad head with large, slightly prominent eyes and drooping heart-shaped, long feathering ears.

(Pekingese, NCI Thesaurus)

Its name is derived from the Swahili term for "animal of the Mtuka (with) a heart-shaped tail," in reference to the riverbed (Mtuka) in which it was discovered and the unique shape of its tail bones.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)