Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a sword; ensiform; xiphioid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a sword blade
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Examples
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Ten years later, super-large sword-shaped crystals of selenite were found in a cavern at a depth of 120 meters.
Did you know? Chihuahua caves house the world's largest crystals 2009
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Ten years later, super-large sword-shaped crystals of selenite were found in a cavern at a depth of 120 meters.
Did you know? Chihuahua caves house the world's largest crystals 2009
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She likes the snacks with colorful plastic sword-shaped toothpicks in them best, likes to save the swords.
Zebra Douglas Light 2011
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Ten years later, super-large sword-shaped crystals of selenite were found in a cavern at a depth of 120 meters.
Did you know? Chihuahua caves house the world's largest crystals 2009
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Flowers: For most of the plant's life, there are no flowers, only a rosette of sword-shaped grey-green leaves.
Celosia, century plant and coconut palm: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2008
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A clump-forming plant that features tubular, nodding, scarlet red, one-sided flowers borne along the upper portions of stiffly arching, sometimes branched, flower scapes (stems) typically rising up to 3′ (infrequently to 4′) tall and slightly above the narrow, sword-shaped, basal leaves.
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Flowers: For most of the plant's life, there are no flowers, only a rosette of sword-shaped grey-green leaves.
Celosia, century plant and coconut palm: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2008
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Harry and James are riding a tricked out batmobile and brandishing gargantuan samuari sword-shaped pens.
Bloggers Who Fake It Harry 2008
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Artisans favored the feathers of the hummingbird and the sword-shaped quetzal feathers due to their brilliant green color, as well as the feathers of the tlauhquechol, a heron that yielded brilliant pink feathers and the zacuán, a yellow coastal bird.
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Artisans favored the feathers of the hummingbird and the sword-shaped quetzal feathers due to their brilliant green color, as well as the feathers of the tlauhquechol, a heron that yielded brilliant pink feathers and the zacuán, a yellow coastal bird.
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