sword-shaped
- adjective
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en forma de espada
- Thus, to restrain the landscape tension, people constructed a big human-built hill between the two sword-shaped hills aiming at each other.
- sword-shaped leaves
- sword-shaped foliage
Examples
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Each yucca plant was a massive clump, fanning out into thickened sword-shaped leaves, and from the center of each was a single stalk bearing a candelabra of waxen, resilient flowers.
Fiction book (1997) -
The garden featured several plants with sword-shaped leaves that added a dramatic touch.
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The tall grass grew in dense clusters, each blade distinctly sword-shaped, cutting through the sunlight.
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In the botanical exhibit, visitors admired the vibrant sword-shaped foliage of the tropical plants.
Synonyms
Long and narrow like a sword, often used to describe leaves
Shaped like a long narrow sword blade
Having a long narrow pointed shape like a sword
Narrow and flat, getting thinner at the end like a knife
Having one or more thin, sharp parts used to cut, like a knife
Having a long narrow shape that ends in a sharp point like a spear
Long and pointed like a thin sharp stick
Long, thin, and pointed like a sewing pin
Having the shape of an arrowhead, narrow and pointed
Antonyms
How Narrow
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sword-shaped comes from combining sword and shaped, meaning 'like a sword blade'. Think of a sword's long, narrow, pointed blade, so a sword-shaped leaf or handle is long and thin with a point, which is why we use this word today.