pumpkin-shaped
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈpʌmpkɪn ʃeɪpt/
- Specialized
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en forma de calabaza
- One of my primary students consistently missed the letter "w." He and I created a pumpkin-shaped book in braille.
- orange pumpkin-shaped
Examples
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And though we can't quite see it, the bun is also allegedly pumpkin-shaped.
Blog text (3) -
The sesame bun is meant to be pumpkin-shaped.
Blog text (23) -
Zero clear back through the pumpkin-shaped doorway.
Fiction book (1993) -
Zero hurries to catch up as Jack steps through the pumpkin-shaped door and out into a clearing in this next forest.
Fiction book (1993) -
PHOTO (COLOR): Orange, pumpkin-shaped fruit
Academic text (2006) -
A third, which produces fruit around Halloween, has black foliage and orange, pumpkin-shaped fruit.
Academic text (2006) -
But since most of them are pumpkin-shaped, I just turn their little jack-o'-lantern faces to the wall and pretend they are Thanksgiving pumpkins!
Blog text (5) -
After a beat: Zero pokes his head up over the lintel of the pumpkin-shaped doorway and sees that Jack has vanished.
Fiction book (1993) -
The decorations included a series of pumpkin-shaped lanterns that illuminated the garden.
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She carved a pumpkin-shaped sculpture for the Halloween festival.
Synonyms
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8.4
A round object that is wider around the middle than from top to bottom
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pumpkin-shaped comes from pumpkin, a name that originally came from an old word for a 'large melon'. Because pumpkins are wide in the middle and often a bit flat on the top and bottom, pumpkin-shaped describes something that is broader at the middle and flattened at the ends.