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butterfly-shaped

butterfly-shaped

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Shaped like a butterfly
  • adjective
: en forma de mariposa
  • She wore a butterfly-shaped pendant that perfectly matched her dress, adding a delicate touch to her outfit.
  • butterfly-shaped thyroid
  • butterfly-shaped gland

Examples

  • It was cut away at the middle to display a waistcoat of voluptuous cream-colored silk with diamond buttons, matching the wide, butterfly-shaped buckles on his shoes.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The butterfly-shaped kite danced in the sky as the children laughed and played.

  • The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland in the neck that plays a crucial role in regulating hormones.

Surface Forms

butterfly-shaped positive

Morphology

butterfly-shaped = butterfly (transparent) = butterfly + shaped

The adjective transparently means 'having the shape of a butterfly,' which follows a productive English pattern.

Etymology

Butterfly-shaped comes from the familiar insect butterfly and the part -shaped, which means 'in the shape of'. Imagine wings spread wide: if an object has two rounded parts like that, we call it butterfly-shaped because it looks like a butterfly.