Awl-shaped (a.) Shaped like an awl. |
Awl-shaped (a.) Subulate. See Subulate. |
Bell-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell |
Boat-shaped (a.) See Cymbiform. |
Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form |
Club-shaped (a.) Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects. |
Comb-shaped (a.) Pectinate. |
Devil's darning-needle () A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t. |
Diamond-shaped (a.) Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. |
Egg-shaped (a.) Resembling an egg in form |
Fiddle-shaped (a.) Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. |
Globe-shaped (a.) Shaped like a globe. |
Halberd-shaped (a.) Hastate. |
Helmet-shaped (a.) Shaped like a helmet |
Kidney-shaped (a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney |
Lath-shaped (a.) Having a slender elongated form, like a lath |
Linear-shaped (a.) Of a linear shape. |
Lozenge-shaped (a.) Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. |
Needle (n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. |
Needle (n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic. |
Needle (n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting |
Needle (n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. |
Needle (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. |
Needle (v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle |
Needle (v. i.) To form needles |
Needle-pointed (a.) Pointed as needles. |
Pear-shaped (a.) Of the form of a pear. |
Saddle-shaped (a.) Shaped like a saddle. |
Saddle-shaped (a.) Bent down at the sides so as to give the upper part a rounded form. |
Saddle-shaped (a.) Bent on each side of a mountain or ridge, without being broken at top |
Salver-shaped (a.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous. |
Sea needle () See Garfish (a). |
Shaped (imp.) of Shape |
Shaped (p. p.) of Shape |
Spindle-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a spindle. |
Spindle-shaped (a.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends |
Strap-shaped (a.) Shaped like a strap |
Sword-shaped (a.) Shaped like a sword |
Thread-shaped (a.) Having the form of a thread |
Tongue-shaped (a.) Shaped like a tongue |
Top-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a top |
Touch-needle (n.) A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone. |
Trumpet-shaped (a.) Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper. |
Urn-shaped (a.) Having the shape of an urn |
Vase-shaped (a.) Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot. |
Wedge-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wedge |
Wedge-shaped (a.) Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base |
Wheel-shaped (a.) Shaped like a wheel. |
Wheel-shaped (a.) Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube |
Whip-shaped (a.) Shaped like the lash of a whip |
dragonfly darning needle devil's darning needle sewing needle snake feeder snake doctor mosquito hawk skeeter hawk | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest, adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
ball bearing needle bearing roller bearing | bearings containing small metal balls |
crochet needle crochet hook | a needle with a hook on the end, used in crocheting |
darning needle embroidery needle | a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread |
hypodermic needle | a hollow needle |
knitting needle | needle consisting of a slender rod with pointed ends, usually used in pairs |
magnetic needle | a slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a mounting with little friction, used to indicate the direction of the earth's magnetic pole |
needle | a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) |
needle | a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument |
packing needle | a large needle used to sew up canvas packages |
phonograph needle needle | a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record |
sewing needle | a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth |
Space Needle | a towerfeet tall in Seattle, a tourist attraction |
upholstery needle | any of several very heavy and sometimes curved sewing needles used by upholsterers |
tube tube-shaped structure | (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure |
needle biopsy | biopsy of deep tissue that is obtained through a hollow needle |
normal curve bell-shaped curve Gaussian curve Gaussian shape | a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution |
mushroom mushroom cloud mushroom-shaped cloud | a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) |
ice crystal snow mist diamond dust poudrin ice needle frost snow frost mist | small crystals of ice |
virgin's bower old man's beard devil's darning needle Clematis virginiana | common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers |
needle spike rush needle rush slender spike rush hair grass Eleocharis acicularis | fine-leaved aquatic spike rush, popular as aerator for aquariums |
needlewood needle-wood needle wood Hakea leucoptera | large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers, central and eastern Australia |
needlebush needle-bush needle bush Hakea lissosperma | shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers, eastern Australia |
Adam's needle Adam's needle-and-thread spoonleaf yucca needle palm Yucca filamentosa | yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages |
broom tree needle furze petty whin Genista anglica | prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe |
Gyromitra infula saddled-shaped false morel | a poisonous fungus, saddle-shaped and dull yellow to brown fertile part is relatively even |
acerate leaf needle | the leaf of a conifer |
needle blight needle cast leaf cast | a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall |
needle goad | goad or provoke,as by constant criticism, He needled her with his sarcastic remarks |
needle | prick with a needle |
tail-shaped | shaped like the tail of an animal |
boat-shaped | having a concave shape like a boat |
bowl-shaped | having a concave shape with an open top like a bowl |
bursiform pouch-shaped pouchlike saclike | shaped like a pouch |
dished dish-shaped patelliform | shaped like a dish or pan |
saucer-shaped | having a concave shape like a saucer |
urn-shaped | having a concave shape like an urn |
bell-shaped | having a convex shape that resembles a bell |
helmet-shaped | having the convex shape of a helmet |
a arboreal arboreous arborescent arboresque arboriform dendriform dendroid dendroidal treelike tree-shaped | resembling a tree in form and branching structure, arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda, dendriform sponges |
boxlike boxy box-shaped | resembling a box in rectangularity |
brick-shaped | shaped like a brick |
cubelike cube-shaped cubical cubiform cuboid cuboidal | shaped like a cube |
orotund rotund round pear-shaped | (of sounds) full and rich, orotund tones, the rotund and reverberating phrase, pear-shaped vowels |
fusiform spindle-shaped cigar-shaped | tapering at each end |
apple-shaped | having the general shape of an apple |
ball-shaped global globose globular orbicular spheric spherical | having the shape of a sphere or ball, a spherical object, nearly orbicular in shape, little globular houses like mud-wasp nests- Zane Grey |
barrel-shaped | having the general shape of a barrel |
bulblike bulbous bulb-shaped | shaped like a bulb |
discoid discoidal disklike disclike disk-shaped disc-shaped | having a flat circular shape |