pelecoid

Adjective

pelecoid (comparative more pelecoid, superlative most pelecoid)

1. Hatchet-shaped.
   • He whom nature has supplied with a pelecoid nose is as cold, keen and sharp as the hatchet after which it was modeled. He is generally a dyspeptic, and hates people.1873 January, “Our Noses”, in The Aldine, volume VI, number 1, New York, N.Y.: James Sutton & Co., Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 2
   • Two more rows like the ones already constructed, except as to color, complete the pattern, which, when finished, forms a pleasing array of orderly pelecoid figures.1907, A[rthur] J[ohn] Fynn, The American Indian as a Product of Environment: With Special Reference to the Pueblos, Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 215