BOWL-SHAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bowl-shaped mean? 

• BOWL-SHAPED (adjective)
  The adjective BOWL-SHAPED has 1 sense:

1. having a concave shape with an open top like a bowl

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOWL-SHAPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a concave shape with an open top like a bowl

Similar:

concave (curving inward)

 Context examples 

It was bowl-shaped and at the bottom, some hundreds of yards from where we lay, were pools of green-scummed, stagnant water, fringed with bullrushes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any part of a device that resembles a bowl-shaped container.

(Cup Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The most recent volcanic activity is thought to have taken place in the caldera-the bowl-shaped depression at the top — where 29 volcanic vents have been identified.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What he saw under the ice were several distinctive features of a complex impact crater: a flat, bowl-shaped depression in the bedrock that was surrounded by an elevated rim and centrally located peaks, which form when the crater floor equilibrates post-impact.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

A bowl-shaped container.

(CUP, NCI Thesaurus)