Resembling a plummet. Also as adv.

Zoology, Botany, and Anatomy (e.g. semilunar cartilage, semilunar fold, semilunar ganglion, semilunar valve: see quots.).

Having the shape of the conventional symbol of the heart (i.e. two symmetrical curves meeting in a point at one end and a notch at the other…

Chiefly Botany. Having the shape of the conventional symbol of the heart (i.e. two symmetrical curves meeting in a point at one end and a notch…

Inversely cordate; heart-shaped, with the apex serving as base or point of attachment.

Having the shape of a club; thickening towards one extremity which is blunt and rounded; in Zoology and Botany = clavate, adj.

Having the form of a fan, fan-like.

Inversely ovate; egg-shaped with the broader end upmost or forward.

resembling a button in shape; small and round, disc-shaped.

Chiefly Zoology and Botany. Club-shaped; thickened towards the apex like a club.

Having the shape of a placenta; rounded and flat.

Obovate in cross-section; inversely ovoid.

Valve-shaped.

Natural History. Markedly narrowed at some part, as if by mechanical constriction.

Shaped like a vulva; resembling a vulva.

Botany and Zoology. Having the shape of a mitre or bonnet; (spec. of the calyptra of a moss) conical, symmetrical, and having two or more slits. Cf…

Feather-shaped on both sides.

Shaped like a sandal.

Arranged in bundles; broom-shaped, fascicular.

Inversely clavate; slender, broadening towards the base; club-shaped, with the thickened part at the base.

= obcordate, adj.

= obovate, adj.

Having the shape of a leathern bottle.

broadsword-shaped adj.

Resembling a placenta, or placental tissue.

Shaped like the Greek letter upsilon, or its Roman equivalents; V-shaped, or U-shaped.