Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a bell, or of a somewhat deep vessel whose lip turns out and then begins to turn in again; specifically, in botany, campanulate. See cut under
Campanula .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a shape or
cross-section like the cross-section of a bell.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a convex shape that resembles a bell
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Examples
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The Baltimore Sun reports that softball-sized, milky white, bell-shaped jellyfish with long, trailing tentacles could be seen moving slowly about Thursday in the murky water by the USS Constellation.
Jellyfish in the Inner Harbor? Washington Post editors 2010
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Birth flower, May, lily of the valley, stemless convallariaceous herb, Convallaria majalis, with a raceme of drooping, bell-shaped fragrant white flowers.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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They are smallish, bright green, thin-skinned, bell-shaped peppers that are very flavorful but usually not hot, although there may be one or two hot ones in every few dozen.
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It blooms with little white bell-shaped flowers on a short stalk.
Berries and Seeds 2010
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Other breaks in the forest revealed the occasional bell-shaped Buddhist dagoba, or stupa, with its soaring-to-heaven whiteness against the otherwise fungal-green tableau.
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Other breaks in the forest revealed the occasional bell-shaped Buddhist dagoba, or stupa, with its soaring-to-heaven whiteness against the otherwise fungal-green tableau.
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The rate with which these ideas came followed a kind of a bell-shaped curve.
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I bid a few hundreds dollars on a pink and white decoupage cake platter with a bell-shaped top.
Why Impulse Spending Can Be a Good Thing Katherine Rosman 2011
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Month after month this process continued until new memories were gradually harder to come by -- descending on the bell-shaped curve until they stopped altogether.
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A low-growing bushy plant that forms a tall stalk with bell-shaped flowers.
Berries and Seeds 2010
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