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SPADE-LIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spade-like mean?
• SPADE-LIKE (adjective)
The adjective SPADE-LIKE has 1 sense:
1. shaped in the form of a spade
Familiarity information: SPADE-LIKE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shaped in the form of a spade
Synonyms:
spade-like; spade-shaped
Similar:
formed (having or given a form or shape)
Context examples
As it came slowly forth and overhung the chasm, we saw that it was a very large snake with a peculiar flat, spade-like head.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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