kidney-shaped

Historical Examples of kidney-shaped

• The shell is kidney-shaped, and of a leathery, crustaceous substance.

  The American Flower Garden Directory

  Thomas Hibbert

• In the buckler-ferns it is kidney-shaped, in the spleenworts long and narrow, and so on.

  The Swan and Her Crew

  George Christopher Davies

• Cortical shell with spiny surface, composed of six (or more) kidney-shaped chambers of different size and form.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)

  Ernst Haeckel

• All four chambers of the cortical shell nearly of the same size and form, kidney-shaped, twice as broad as long.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)

  Ernst Haeckel

• Three arm-chambers trapezoidal, at the base one-third, at the distal end two-thirds as broad as the three kidney-shaped gates.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)

  Ernst Haeckel