turnip-shaped
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Rounded and thick at the top, getting narrower toward the bottom
- adjective
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- The garden featured a turnip-shaped sculpture that caught everyone's attention.
Examples
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She had a large, turnip-shaped head with a sprouting of reddish hair at the top.
Fiction book (1999) -
He wore a turnip-shaped hat that made him stand out at the party.
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The ancient vase had a turnip-shaped body, giving it a unique appearance.
How Bulbous
Surface Forms
turnip-shaped positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word turnip-shaped comes from the vegetable turnip and the ending -shaped, and it means 'like a turnip', round and bulb-like at the top and narrower at the bottom. So we call lanterns, domes, or roots turnip-shaped when they have that rounded, narrowing form.