Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a flask; specifically, round, partly cylindrical, and swelling into a more or less globular form at one end.
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Examples
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The only bottle I found was the plastic, roughly flask-shaped style that is clearly intended for concealing in your clothing.
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The Bar Master is a $30, flask-shaped PDA that stores drinks-recipes.
Boing Boing: September 21, 2003 - September 27, 2003 Archives 2003
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At the apex of each basidium a flask-shaped cell, "sterigma" (d), appears.
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A filament (b) grows upward, its termination becomes clubbed; on the clubbed extremity flask-shaped cells appear -- "sterigmata" (c).
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Hicks 'bottles: {Scanner's comment: sic} flask-shaped pits or depressions in the antennae of bees and ants: supposed to be the organs of hearing.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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The experiment was performed by means of a flask-shaped Leyden jar with a long tube attached to its neck, and containing a liquid which served as the inner armature.
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Ampulla-like: flask-shaped; applied to a vascular sac at base of antennae which aids in the blood circulation of head and its appendages.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Hot tears of disappointment blurred the youngster's eyes and trickled down his cheeks -- he had forgotten to load the rifle, and his hands trembled as he hurriedly jammed the long, flask-shaped cartridges into the magazine and followed down to the river on the trail of the big cat.
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The thymus appears in the form of two flask-shaped entodermal diverticula, which arise, one on either side, from the third branchial pouch (Fig. 1175), and extend lateralward and backward into the surrounding mesoderm in front of the ventral aortæ.
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The fibrous pericardium forms a flask-shaped bag, the neck of which is closed by its fusion with the external coats of the great vessels, while its base is attached to the central tendon and to the muscular fibers of the left side of the diaphragm.
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