fan-shaped

Examples

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• The city of Hiroshima is located on the broad fan-shaped delta of the Ota River, whose seven mouths divide the city into six islands that project finger-like into Hiroshima Bay of the Inland Sea.

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• By slow degrees, the Jinga broadened to become a placid flood, flowing around dozens of small islands, each overgrown with fronds, plumes, and fan-shaped dendrons.

  Fiction book (1993)

• You can see they're sort of like fan shaped down here and over here.

• It is metal, fan-shaped, and her daughter stands by the closet where it is kept.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Silwender sat in an armchair with a high, fan-shaped back.

  Fiction book (1993)

• In the morning, shiny fan-shaped palmetto leaves rustled against the screen windows at Martin's townhouse.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The artist created a stunning mural featuring a fan-shaped design that draws the eye toward the center.

• The fan-shaped leaves of the ginkgo tree create a beautiful display in the fall.

Synonyms

F

fanlike

vsfan-shaped

3.8

Shaped with parts spreading out from one point, like an open hand

describes the exact curved shape spreading from one central point

F

fanned

vsfan-shaped

4.3

Spread out like an open fan

refers to a static curved form, not the action that caused the spread

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology