The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wedge-shaped \Wedge"-shaped`\, a.
Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
(Bot.) Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
WordNet
Usage examples of "wedge-shaped".
The leem is eight-legged, sinuous like a ferret or a weasel, but the leopard-size, with wedge-shaped head and fangs that can strike through oak.
At the last second before it closed over our heads I glanced upwards to the wedge-shaped voussoirs and, above them, the keystone: LITTERA SCRIPTA MANET.
His wife nudged him violently in the ribs and, being welltrained, he at once cut his conversation with Miss Smart short and turned to greet a skinny, rat-eyed individual who held out a wedge-shaped hand which appeared to have sharpened, tapered edges.
The craft was an enormous wedge-shaped airfoil about eight hundred feet across and one thousand feet long.
Here were found the remains of large mammals, associated with distinctive bifacially flaked spear points, and with burins and blades made from characteristic wedge-shaped cores.
Our airtight hatches had divided the disk into wedge-shaped slices, at either end of every section.
As his long sensitive fingers passed over the wedge-shaped indentations in its surface, as he read it in the dark, the discomforts and ugliness of his surroundings faded.
They flew in a wedge-shaped formation, the Vaterland highest and leading, the tail receding into the corners of the sky.
He had tied a line to the air tank and balanced it on the narrow ledge beside the stream rushing through that wedge-shaped cut, then he undertook the knob with a strenuous heel-and-shoulder scramble, lying back at almost full length, his knees quivering with the strain and the extra weight of rope crosscoiled bandolier style over his chest.
The man sat comfortlessly on the broken shard of a boulder, leaning forward, his wedge-shaped trape zius muscles hanging limply from his neck.
The man sat comfortlessly on the broken shard of a boulder, leaning forward, his wedge-shaped trapezius muscles hanging limply from his neck.
First one dragonet, then another, awkward, ugly, glistening creatures, flopped and rolled from their casings, squawking and creeling, their wedge-shaped heads too big for the thin, sinuous short necks.
Samantha laid a wedge-shaped chin on her left shoulder to help her consider, and she smiled as silken whiskers brushed her cheek just above the line of nerve deadness.
The wedge-shaped appendage slashed easily through the net and plunged on into Huaanton's trachea and air bladder.
After firing, the bolt was turned, grasping the cartridge with a wedge-shaped extractor on the bolt face and withdrawn.