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
In very many other flowers the pistil, or the stamens, or both, are rectangularly bent to one side of the flower.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
Thus are the three battalions got rid of at least; "they cap the First Prussian line rectangularly, like a lid," says my authority,—lid which does not reach to the Second Line by a good way.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
The carina is either straight or curved, but never rectangularly bent, and is always of considerable breadth.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Valves smooth, thin, transparent; carina rectangularly bent, with the lower part expanded into a flat oblong disc.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
