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SPADE-SHAPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spade-shaped mean?
• SPADE-SHAPED (adjective)
The adjective SPADE-SHAPED has 1 sense:
1. shaped in the form of a spade
Familiarity information: SPADE-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shaped in the form of a spade
Synonyms:
spade-like; spade-shaped
Similar:
formed (having or given a form or shape)
Context examples
Its leaves are spade-shaped with round-pointed tips and purple-red veins and petioles.
(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
He had the face and beard which I associate with an Assyrian bull; the former florid, the latter so black as almost to have a suspicion of blue, spade-shaped and rippling down over his chest.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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