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BELL-SHAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bell-shaped mean? 

BELL-SHAPED (adjective)
  The adjective BELL-SHAPED has 1 sense:

1. having a convex shape that resembles a bellplay

  Familiarity information: BELL-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BELL-SHAPED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a convex shape that resembles a bell

Similar:

bulging; convex (curving or bulging outward)


 Context examples 


It was a man who walked inside a framework made of bent canes so that he was enclosed on all sides in a bell-shaped cage.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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