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cigar-shaped

cigar-shaped adjective: having a form that roughly resembles a cigar; long and cylindrical with tapering ends.

Adjective

cigar-shaped (comparative more cigar-shaped, superlative most cigar-shaped)

  1. Having a form that roughly resembles a cigar; long and cylindrical with tapering ends.
    • The Winans, cigar-shaped steamer, had been further tried at Baltimore.1859 October 8, The Argus, Melbourne, page 1, column 4
    • "We were looking east through the rectory window at a rainbow when my wife spotted a grey, cigar-shaped object emerging from the rainstorm."1965, James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 77

Forms of cigar-shaped

comparativemore cigar-shaped
superlativemost cigar-shaped

Questions about cigar-shaped

What does cigar-shaped mean?
Cigar-shaped means having a form that roughly resembles a cigar; long and cylindrical with tapering ends.
What part of speech is cigar-shaped?
Cigar-shaped is an adjective.

Words near cigar-shaped in the dictionary

  1. cigar-box guitars
  2. cigar-boxes
  3. cigar-butt
  4. cigar-butts
  5. cigar-chomping
  6. cigar-shaped
  7. cigar-smoke
  8. cigardom
  9. cigared
  10. cigaresque
  11. cigaret

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