rectangular
adjective
shaped like a rectangle.
rectangularly
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a word derived from
rectangular.
Example Sentences
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As the straight line is best for the ideal city, the curved line being too rococco and impractical in an age of metal construction, the city of the future must be planned rectangularly.
From Time Magazine Archive
The direction of the rectangularly bent part is independent of the chief source of light.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
It then continued to grow in its new direction alongside the slip of wood, until it came to the end of it, round which it bent rectangularly.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
Valves 5, approximate; scuta with their umbones in the middle of the occludent margin; carina rectangularly bent, extending up between the terga, with the basal end simply concave.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The five radicles which were rectangularly bent became fixed in this position, and they continued to grow out horizontally in the peat for a length of about 1 inch during from 4 to 6 days.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
