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Saucer-shaped   /sˈɔsər-ʃeɪpt/   Listen
Saucer-shaped

adjective
1.
Having a concave shape like a saucer.





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"Saucer-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books



... wide to the right of its fellows in the brigade; in a saucer-shaped hollow on the hill-side, well screened with scrub. Roughly it curved back from the straight lip overlooking the slope, in a three-fifths segment of a circle; and the officers' mess made a short arc in it, some way in rear ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... the Glimmerglass, and was tramping once more up and down the old familiar runways. Presently he came upon a huge maple, lying prostrate on the ground. He walked around its great bushy head and down toward its foot; and there he found a broad, saucer-shaped hollow, left when the tree was torn up by the roots in some wild gale. On one side rose a mass of earth, straight as a stone wall and four or five feet in height; and against its foot lay one of the most tempting beds of dead leaves that he had ever seen, free from snow, dry ...
— Forest Neighbors - Life Stories of Wild Animals • William Davenport Hulbert
... failed, that was evident. The question now was, how to save himself. With a sudden, catlike movement he whirled over on his back, caught his heel in a tiny, saucer-shaped depression and sat up. Then his courage failed him. Day had at last penetrated to the floor of the valley, and he was appalled at the ...
— Dutch Courage and Other Stories • Jack London


Words linked to "Saucer-shaped" :   concave


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