PANCAKE-LIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pancake-like mean? 

• PANCAKE-LIKE (adjective)
  The adjective PANCAKE-LIKE has 1 sense:

1. resembling a pancake in shape

  Familiarity information: PANCAKE-LIKE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANCAKE-LIKE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling a pancake in shape

Similar:

circular; round (having the shape or form of a circle)

 Context examples 

An open question is whether there is a difference in the frequency of planets in the Milky Way's central bulge compared to its disk, the pancake-like region surrounding the bulge.

('Iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing, NASA)

But these orbits also are tilted the same way, about 30 degrees "downward" compared to the pancake-like plane within which the planets orbit the sun.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)