Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shaped like a spoon; spatulate; cochleariform.

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  • adjective shaped in the form of a spoon

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Examples

  • My glasses slipped down my nose as I used the pliers to depress a spoon-shaped metal lever of the trap, while I held down a corresponding lever on the other side of the foothold.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Patients hold a spoon-shaped antenna in their mouths to deliver a very low-intensity electromagnetic field in their bodies.

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  • My glasses slipped down my nose as I used the pliers to depress a spoon-shaped metal lever of the trap, while I held down a corresponding lever on the other side of the foothold.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • My glasses slipped down my nose as I used the pliers to depress a spoon-shaped metal lever of the trap, while I held down a corresponding lever on the other side of the foothold.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • The music includes a gusli a hammered dulcimer with spoon-shaped sticks, and the performers sing weird, nonsense-ish rhymes.

    Stravinsky Crashes the Party Stuart Isacoff 2011

  • My glasses slipped down my nose as I used the pliers to depress a spoon-shaped metal lever of the trap, while I held down a corresponding lever on the other side of the foothold.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • My glasses slipped down my nose as I used the pliers to depress a spoon-shaped metal lever of the trap, while I held down a corresponding lever on the other side of the foothold.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Aeoniums form rosettes of spoon-shaped blades at the tops of corky gray stems.

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  • She described the spoon-shaped design as having a smiling skull with sunglasses in the bowl and the body of a chameleon on the handle.

    SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010

  • She described the spoon-shaped design as having a smiling skull with sunglasses in the bowl and the body of a chameleon on the handle.

    SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010

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  • Spoon-shaped has been looked up 145 times, favorited 0 times, listed once, commented on 0 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.

    October 24, 2010

  • Bit of a scoop, that story, 'gus.

    October 25, 2010