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pumpkin-shaped

adj. having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles [syn: oblate] [ant: prolate]

Usage examples of "pumpkin-shaped".

Although, as always these days, her eyes were fixed on the one thing that marred that view—the pumpkin-shaped Korozhet ship that was almost as big as the remains of the old slowship which had founded the colony.

And that pumpkin-shaped Korozhet ship, unfortunately for my attempts to examine it, is opaque to just about every form of e-m radiation, including radio.

The head itself was roughly pumpkin-shaped, the impression enhanced by the orange-brown, leathery skin that covered not only the face but the round, bald crown of the head as well.

Between windows and fireplaces rows of shabby, pumpkin-shaped seats were placed, each with a stricken palm tree rising from its center.

He couldn't imagine what the history of the Sutra could have been during the intervening years since Aunt Tao's teacher made his unsuccessful attempt to steal it, but it seemed likely that the Mao lady's pumpkin-shaped lover had come by it quite recently and had called in to see her on his way back to Snake Island to share his triumph with her and spend a few nights with her in bed.

He was black as the ace of spades and he wore no clothing, but the eyes that looked out of the pumpkin-shaped head at Decker were bright with a light that might have been intelligence.

These were interspersed with a larger bush with yellow fleshy leaves and dark-green, pumpkin-shaped fruit, each one as big as a large grapefruit.