bell-shaped
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- adjective
- /bɛl-ʃeɪpt/
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en forma de campana
- The silverbell's bell-shaped flowers are much larger than those of other silverbell trees in the southern United States.
- bell-shaped flowers
- bell-shaped curve
What that means is that there is still a large proportion of that bell shaped distribution of people getting even less than that amount.
- What that means is that there is still a large proportion of that bell shaped distribution of people getting even less than that amount.
- And instead of, and I saw medicine as being like a bell shaped curve where they were taking everybody to be the same.
- And that bell shaped curve continues all the way through where in the middle there may be a large group that calls themselves independents.
- So what they call them bell shaped blooms, whatever kind of trumpet desk.
Examples
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At last, they halted at a circle of bell-shaped tents of horsehide, lashed with leather thongs.
Fiction book (1995) -
The revelation has implications for better understanding the sculpting of Fantastic Pit's smooth, bell-shaped walls; see photograph on previous page.
Academic text (2009) -
After that, the tree would bear bright red bell-shaped fruit on the otherwise empty branches.
Fiction book (1991) -
In May, it flowers on 2- to 3-foot flower stems with blue, bell-shaped flowers.
Blog text (6) -
They get kind of tall with those beautiful white bell shaped blooms.
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Eustoma, lisianthus, is a dwarf with purplish-blue, bell-shaped flowers that last up to 14 days.
Academic text (1994) -
The bell-shaped flowers of the plant attract many bees in the garden.
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In spring, the garden is filled with bell-shaped blooms that sway gently in the breeze.
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She wore a beautiful dress with a bell-shaped skirt that flowed gracefully as she walked.
Synonyms
Having the shape of a bell, as in many flowers
A shape like a bell often seen in flowers
Shaped like a bell, often seen in flowers
How Bell-Shaped
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bell-shaped comes from the everyday word bell and the ending -shaped, which means 'having the form of'. Picture a flower or cloud with a rounded top and a wider, open bottom. We call that bell-shaped because it looks 'like a bell'.