slipper-shaped

Generally, however, Moslems prefer the old classical, the Tribulum of Virgil and Varro, a slipper-shaped sled of wood garnished on the sole with large-headed iron nails, or sharp fragments of flint or basalt.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Morren [233] describes a form intermediate between the ordinary slipper-shaped corolla and the perfect peloria just described, and which he calls sigmoid peloria.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Persian period, a slipper-shaped coffin was used, into which the body was inserted through an aperture at one end; but there is no evidence that the Babylonians employed this method.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

Loftus, English explorer; his visit to Warka in 1854-5, 80-82; procures slipper-shaped coffins for the British Museum, 36.

Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria 1879

These eggs grow into a little slipper-shaped creature which swims by means of the rapid waving motion of hair-like elastic rods which cover the whole body.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

The ornamental coffins were of a coarse glazed earthenware, bluish-green in hue, and belonged to the kind which has been called "slipper-shaped."

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

Virgil and Varro, a slipper-shaped sled of wood garnished on the sole with large-headed iron nails, or sharp fragments of flint or basalt.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Paramecium - A well-known visitor to the classroom microscope, this slipper-shaped ciliate is commonly found in freshwater ponds.

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Paramecium - A well-known visitor to the classroom microscope, this slipper-shaped ciliate is commonly found in freshwater ponds.

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And Sasquatch offers a slipper-shaped Sasquatch pet bed, left.

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