doughnut-shaped
- adjective
- /ˈdoʊnʌt ʃeɪpt/
- The artist created a doughnut-shaped sculpture to symbolize unity.
- a doughnut-shaped ring
- a doughnut-shaped device
- a doughnut-shaped region
It's a, it's a, it's a doughnut shaped thing, like a clay pot, clay pot shaped like a big old doughnut.
- It's a, it's a, it's a doughnut shaped thing, like a clay pot, clay pot shaped like a big old doughnut.
Examples
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I found tubes and tendons and muscles, an enormous doughnut-shaped digestive system, and, in the center of the toroid, a large, highly developed brain.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's a, it's a, it's a doughnut shaped thing, like a clay pot, clay pot shaped like a big old doughnut.
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Try to picture a volunteer subject placed on a gurney and inserted into a doughnut-shaped ring.
Academic text (1996) -
Out-of-focus bright spots usually appear as fuzzy doughnut-shaped rings.
Academic text (1994) -
Within the magnetosphere, two concentric doughnut-shaped belts of magnetic field surround Earth.
Academic text (2006) -
However, it took until 2006 for Quebec to pay off its buildings, calling it the Big Owe (after the doughnut-shaped Olympic stadium which had been called the Big O).
Blog text (4) -
We call Prokaryan microbes microzooids because each cell is doughnut-shaped, just like the larger zooids.
Fiction book (1998) -
Above the water is a scenic temple atop a picture-perfect doughnut-shaped rock, and under the surface, a diver's playground teeming with marine life.
Blog text (3) -
To understand the world of the fiddler crab, ecologists peer through a lens that renders a landscape as a doughnut-shaped panorama.
Academic text (2004) -
The scientist explained that the particle accelerator produces a doughnut-shaped ring of energy.
Synonyms
Shaped like a ring with a hole in the middle
Shaped like a ring
Having a doughnut shape like a ring
Shaped like a circle
Having rings or bands around it
Something that has ring-shaped parts along its length
Shaped like a circle with a hole in the middle
Round with a hole in the middle
Curled into a spiral, like young fern leaves that unroll
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word doughnut-shaped comes from the food doughnut, which began as a small 'nut' of 'dough' with a hole in the middle. So doughnut-shaped means something that looks like a ring or has a 'hole' in the middle, just like that treat.