Definitions
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- adjective (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base
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Examples
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They fish by sweeping their spatula-shaped bills from side to side in shallow water.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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They fish by sweeping their spatula-shaped bills from side to side in shallow water.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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They fish by sweeping their spatula-shaped bills from side to side in shallow water.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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The yellow powdery substance with which we are all familiar in ordinary flowers is here absent, the pollen being collected in two club-shaped or, more properly, spatula-shaped masses, linked in pairs at their slender prolonged tips, each of which terminates in a sticky disc-shaped appendage united in V-shape below.
My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873
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The spine projects back in a thick mass, and terminates in a spatula-shaped tail, naked and scale-form.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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The spine projects back in a thick mass, and terminates in a spatula-shaped tail, naked and scale-form.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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It takes until May for these to develop fully, but the whorl of caper-coloured, spatula-shaped leaves is an exciting sign of spring.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Sauropods couldn't chew, having no back teeth to grind with, so many species are thought to have used small peg or spatula-shaped teeth to rake and slice fern leaves.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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Needles come in all shapes and sizes too: tiny, near-invisible ones are used in microsurgery, blunt ones stitch delicate, easily-damaged tissue such as the liver, and specialist needles that are super-sharp and spatula-shaped have been developed to make eye operations easier to perform.
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Other species lacked these structures and in their place, they had a pair of "anal oars" - thicker, harder, spatula-shaped versions of the caterpillar's normal hairs.
Discover Blogs 2010
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