The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bell-shaped \Bell"-shaped`\ (-sh[=a]pt`), a. Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.
Wiktionary
a. Having a shape or cross-section like the cross-section of a bell.
WordNet
adj. having a shape resembling a bell
Usage examples of "bell-shaped".
She tucked a cluster of tiny, red, bell-shaped flowerlets into one of the many pockets in the sash she wore over her tunic.
The corolla can hardly be said to be bell-shaped, as the five divisions are two-thirds of its depth, which allows it, when full blown, to become nearly flat, and as the segments are equal, sharply cut, and pointed, the flower has a star-like appearance.
It was accompanied by several greenish, carrotlike vegetables, a hunk of gray bread, a square of something resembling white cheese, two bell-shaped fruits with purple skins spotted with crimson, and finally an unclassifiable object which looked like a bunch of grapes that had been dipped in tar.
The Changelings increased their pace with the additional light until the passageway widened into a bell-shaped chamber festooned with lambent strings of vegetation.
They therefore made them more like centipeds with large, bell-shaped feet, connected with a superstructural deck by ankle-jointed pipes, through which, when necessary, a pressure of air can be forced down upon the enclosed surface of water.
Her hair was a pale, bell-shaped curve, combed straight back from her face in the classic style and just long enough to bounce on her shoulders.
Waterhouse slashes an abscissa and an ordinate onto the board, then sweeps out a bell-shaped curve.
The amount of blood in a chest after an aortic rupture has to be defined by a bell-shaped curve.
Even at a distance I recognized most of them: Liz was there, whose nylons swished when she crossed her legs, and Justin Moore, engineered for flawless skin as well as brains, and others from the far end of the bell-shaped curve.
On the bell-shaped curve of happiness there are always a handful who grumble at paradise.
The children spread out in the normal bell-shaped curve, centered on IQ 125&mdash.
This sort of thing is governed by the bell-shaped curve, and it would be surprising if magic talent weren’.
But a woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.
All he is, I am afraid, is a bell-shaped curve with ambitions, the median made flesh—.
Companions in burnished conical helmets stood side by side with Defenders in helmets ridged and rimmed, and Cairhienin in bell-shaped helms, ignoring the wind, barred faceguards hiding their features, halberds slanted precisely.