kidney-shaped
[kid-nee-sheypt]
- having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
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Origin of kidney-shaped
First recorded in 1750–60
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Examples from the Web for kidney-shaped
Historical Examples
The shell is kidney-shaped, and of a leathery, crustaceous substance.
The American Flower Garden DirectoryThomas Hibbert
In the buckler-ferns it is kidney-shaped, in the spleenworts long and narrow, and so on.
The Swan and Her CrewGeorge Christopher Davies
Cortical shell with spiny surface, composed of six (or more) kidney-shaped chambers of different size and form.
All four chambers of the cortical shell nearly of the same size and form, kidney-shaped, twice as broad as long.
Three arm-chambers trapezoidal, at the base one-third, at the distal end two-thirds as broad as the three kidney-shaped gates.
kidney-shaped
- shaped like an oval with an inward curve at one side
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