The Collaborative International Dictionary
cigar-shaped \ci`gar"-shaped`\ (s[i^]*g[aum]r"-sh[=a]pt`), adj. cylindrical, tapering at each end; having the shape of a cigar.
Syn: fusiform, spindle-shaped.
WordNet
adj. tapering at each end [syn: fusiform, spindle-shaped]
Usage examples of "cigar-shaped".
A pair of ornithopters fluttered close to the mass of its cigar-shaped gas bag.
October of 1952, over 100 citizens of Gaillac, France reported the formation of 16 flying saucers, which surrounded a large, cigar-shaped object.
The belemnites were cigar-shaped shells completely surrounded by flesh, almost like little manta rays with backbones fused.
The four labs, also cigar-shaped, would fit snugly against the central body when the struts were retracted.
Two hunters from Millinocket who had been in the Kineo area two days previous claimed to have seen a cigar-shaped object hovering over a powerline-cut in the woods.
The youth, looking anxiously at him, turned his gaze now and then toward a gauge, somewhat like those on steam boilers, which gauge was attached to an aluminum, cigar-shaped affair, about five feet long.