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ribbon-shaped

ribbon-shaped

4.1
Long, narrow and flat like a thin strip
  • adjective
translation icon : en forma de cinta
  • The ribbon-shaped plant leaves swayed gently in the breeze.

Examples

  • We used ribbon-shaped strips of fabric to decorate the room.

  • In the field of polarized light were several multicolored fibers, flat and ribbon-shaped with twists at irregular intervals.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The artist painted a ribbon-shaped pathway leading to the garden.

Synonyms

ribbonlike
vsribbon-shaped
4.1

Long and thin with a flat shape like a strip of cloth

is defined as that long narrow flat form rather than just similar
ribbony
vsribbon-shaped
7.0

Long and narrow like a thin strip of cloth

is the specific term that stresses the shape as a narrow flat strip
belt-shaped
vsribbon-shaped
5.0

Long and narrow like a strap that goes around things

is narrower in sense, focusing on a flat thin strip rather than a band

How Narrow

threadlike
1 4.2
ribbon-shaped
4.1
narrow
290 1.0
wide
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

ribbon-shaped positive

Morphology

ribbon-shaped = ribbon + shaped (transparent) = ribbon + shape + ed

The meaning is directly compositional: it describes something that is shaped like a ribbon.

Etymology

Ribbon-shaped comes from ribbon, a long, thin strip like the one you tie on a present, and shaped, which means 'made to look like'. So something ribbon-shaped is 'long and narrow', like a flat strip of cloth or paper.