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Saddle-shaped

Saddle-shaped \Sad"dle-shaped`\, a. Shaped like a saddle. Specifically:

  1. (Bot.) Bent down at the sides so as to give the upper part a rounded form.
    --Henslow.

  2. (Geol.) Bent on each side of a mountain or ridge, without being broken at top; -- said of strata.

Usage examples of "saddle-shaped".

The speeder came at him, a saddle-shaped vehicle with no weapons in evidence, made to rely on quickness and maneuverability rather than firepower.

His face with its cleft lip, slanting eyes, and saddle-shaped nose was turned toward the camera.

Waist-high and covered with a fine silky floss, they were streamlined, saddle-shaped creatures whose incurvate edges terminated in ten slender legs that were plainly meant for running.

He wore cowboy boots, jeans, a saddle-shaped belt buckle, a faded denim shirt, and a jeans jacket.

Rotterdam, on its own slender twig, three jump points from Xavier because of the need to go around the saddle-shaped Compassionate Hand intrusion.

There, in thick Tyrian purple feltthe felt from Pridden and the dye from Ioudeiarested a silver-and-glass, palm-sized flat object, a second slightly smaller object and something saddle-shaped with protruding handles.