Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shaped like a top; inversely conical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having the shape of a top

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Examples

  • Its end was top-shaped, pointed like a dagger and with four razor-edged ribs on its sides.

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • He stepped outside to get a better look and saw a top-shaped craft with a row of dark squares and smaller openings across the midsection.

    Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000

  • He stepped outside to get a better look and saw a top-shaped craft with a row of dark squares and smaller openings across the midsection.

    Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000

  • He stepped outside to get a better look and saw a top-shaped craft with a row of dark squares and smaller openings across the midsection.

    Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000

  • He stepped outside to get a better look and saw a top-shaped craft with a row of dark squares and smaller openings across the midsection.

    Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000

  • Her garment was different too, a top-shaped, high-necked dress fitted with half a dozen big bulging pockets.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • Her garment was different too, a top-shaped, high-necked dress fitted with half a dozen big bulging pockets.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • Fishes seemed to drift over the wave - wrinkled sand as though suspended in mid-air; while through six feet of clear water you could see rocks on which anemones lifted frail, coloured arms, and hermit crabs moved, dragging their top-shaped homes.

    My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

  • Cotton yarn is prepared from the native plant by means of a very primitive spindle, which consists of a small rod of wood at the end of which is a top-shaped piece of the same material which serves to sustain the necessary rotation.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • +Cap+ bright orange or egg color, first convex, and then depressed, at length top-shaped and smooth.

    Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin

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