WordNet
adj. of a leaf shape; round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example) [syn: peltate]
Usage examples of "shield-shaped".
The vast plains were covered by flood basalts—frozen lakes of lava, like the maria of the Moon—and punctured by thousands of small volcanoes, shield-shaped, built up by repeated outpourings of lava.
It was a shield-shaped casque of greasy chitin, lobed and crescentiform, rising to either side of the central mouth orifice in twin bosses or stubby horns.
As the car accelerated again, Kelly got a glimpse of the unit patch on the left shoulder of the trooper's fatigues: a horse and bend dexter worked in gold embroidery on a shield-shaped blue field.
From the body-armor depended shield-shaped tassets ridged and fluted with pointed arches, prolonging the defense of the skirt over cuisses embellished with jagged wave designs that differed on each thigh.