ADJECTIVE
- (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base
- shaped like a wedge
How To Use wedge-shaped In A Sentence
- He had a banana and a wedge-shaped cheese for lunch.
- _The wedge-shaped dash over the note_ (staccatissimo) was formerly employed to indicate a tone still more detached than that indicated by the dot, but this sign is really superfluous, and is seldom used at present. Music Notation and Terminology
- Closely related to the Tufted Puffin, the Rhinoceros Auklet is a large alcid with a wedge-shaped head.
- An archway's most important stone is the keystone, the wedge-shaped piece of rock at its apex.
- Using a reed stylus, they made wedge-shaped impressions on wet clay tablets which were then baked in the sun.
- It was a dragon of the old legends, its head a wedge-shaped spike that effortless plowed from the ground, followed by a chainlike neck, and finally a great body made of metal ribs. The Brothers' War
- The Kensico Cemetery burial card diagrams the wedge-shaped plot, 5 feet by 8 by 40.
- _ Elliptical incision for entropium; _b. _ wedge-shaped incision for ectropium. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
- He suggested that the median geanticlines were absent, and that the geosynclines were actually wedge-shaped accumulations of strata.
- Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS) is characterized by skeletal abnormalities, such as bifid ribs (ribs that are split into two pieces) and wedge-shaped vertebrae. Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome
