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sausage-shaped

sausage-shaped

3.7
A long round shape with rounded ends like a small tube
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɔsɪdʒ ʃeɪpt/
translation icon : en forma de salchicha
  • Norky had magic-markered a smiley face on a white sausage-shaped balloon he'd worked through his open fly as if exposing himself.

Examples

  • The sculpture was a long, sausage-shaped form, smoothly rounded at both ends.

  • She carefully designed the sausage-shaped cake, ensuring it resembled the popular dish.

  • The toy was a sausage-shaped object that rolled smoothly across the floor.

Synonyms

sausage-like
vssausage-shaped
3.6

Long and rounded like a small tube

is the precise form focusing on the same basic shape
botuliform
vssausage-shaped
  • Specialized
9.9

Having the shape of a long sausage with rounded ends

is the general descriptive term used outside specialist fields
allantoid
vssausage-shaped
  • Specialized
9.9

Shaped like a long, slightly curved sausage

is the everyday descriptive term not limited to biology

How Cylindrical

cylindrical
12 4.0
tubular
11 5.1
sausage-shaped
3.7
rounded
1 2.4

Surface Forms

sausage-shaped positive

Morphology

sausage-shaped = sausage + shaped (transparent) = sausage + shaped

The adjective is formed by combining 'sausage' with the productive pattern '-shaped' meaning 'having the shape of X', so the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Sausage-shaped is built from the simple word sausage, a small tube of meat with rounded ends, and shaped, which means 'made like'. So sausage-shaped means 'long and rounded at the ends', and we use it for anything that looks like a sausage.