kidney-shaped
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈkɪdni ʃeɪpt/
- "No, I wouldn't like that," Nash said, and pushed a kidney-shaped enamel dish across the desk toward him.
- kidney-shaped pool
- kidney-shaped stone
- kidney-shaped desk
Examples
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The water in the kidney-shaped pool danced and glinted in the sunlight.
Fiction book (1999) -
It stood on a tiny island amid a man-made kidney-shaped lake.
Fiction book (1998) -
The pool was kidney-shaped, and so we would argue over the good side.
Fiction book (1994) -
I put the kidney-shaped pan and the dirty glass back in their proper places.
Fiction book (2002) -
The yard was a vast expanse of concrete with a kidney-shaped swimming pool in the center.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Healthy day, Adjudicator," said the woman, sitting on a saddle-seat behind a kidney-shaped table.
Fiction book (2002) -
The front bedroom, Sarah's old room, has a blue carpet, organdy curtains, and white furniture, including a kidney-shaped vanity table.
Fiction book (1996) -
Everywhere I look in our living room, there is something old: Philco radio lamp, kidney-shaped coffee table, bowling ball liqueur dispenser, Heywood-Wakefield china cabinet.
Fiction book (1999) -
Lake 'N Pines Motel, with its kidney-shaped outdoor pool, looks like an artifact from a 1960s childhood, but it has free Wi-Fi and cable TV in each room.
Blog text (15) -
The garden featured a beautiful kidney-shaped pond surrounded by colorful flowers.
Synonyms
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3.4
Having a curved shape with rounded ends like a bean
Shaped like a kidney, as some leaves and seeds are
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word kidney-shaped comes from the body part kidney and the ending -shaped, and a helpful way to remember it is 'having the shape of a kidney', which is round with a curved side. So we call beans, leaves, or pools kidney-shaped when they look like that.