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having no shape, shapeless

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unshaped, formless, amorphous, inchoate, unformed, unfashioned

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having a shape or form

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shaped, formed, configured, conformed, fashioned

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having a usually simple planed shape (lines or curves)

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geometric

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having the same shape or boundaries

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coextensivef

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having a similar form

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conforming, similiform, equiform

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having a different form

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diversiform, variform

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having many forms

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multiform, multifarious, polymorphic, polymorphous, multiplex, omniform, omnifarious

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having a shape with equal sides and angles

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regular

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not having a shape with generally equal sides and angles

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irregular

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having an unconventional or uneven shape

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irregular, contorted, misshapen, malformed, deformed, twisted, grotesque

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having an axially (or in relation to a central line) balanced shape

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symmetrical

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having an axially unbalanced shape

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asymmetrical, dissymmetrical

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more prominent or sizable on one side

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one-sided, lop-sided

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having the sides reversed (as a mirror)

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heterochiral

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having a proper or hamonious dimensions relationally

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proportional, proportionate, commensurate, eurythmic

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not having proper dimensions relationally

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disproportional, disproportionate, uncommensurate

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longer in one dimension

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elongated, oblong, oblongitudinal, lengthened, extended, stretched, prolongated, elliptical, distended, protacted

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shorter in one dimension

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shortened, truncated, foreshortened

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becoming wider

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widening, expanding, broadening, dilating, splayed

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becoming narrower

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narrowing, tapering, tapered

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having or coming to a point

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pointed, pronged, spiked, acuate, acuminate, mucronate

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having the form a line or lines

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linear, lineal, lineiform

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straight and uncurved in line

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rectilinear, rectilineal, linear, lineal

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not straight

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crooked, bent, askew, awry, oblique

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represented in outline only

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outlined, outlinear, contoured, delineatory, in profile, silhouetted

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having a sharp bend or angle

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angular, geniculate, orthometric (see hook-shaped)

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standing at a right or 90 degree (L-orgamma-shaped) angle

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upright, perpendicular, normal, orthogonal, rectangular, orthometric

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having a less than right angle

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acute-angled

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having three acute angles

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triquetrous

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having a greater than perpendicular angle

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obtuse-angled

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having an acute or obtuse (non-right) angle

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oblique-angled, obliquangular

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anglegreater than 180 degree

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reflex angle

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being an angle formed by two planes

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dihedral

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on a plan or unbroken surface

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flat, level, planar, tabular, flattened, even, applanate, homaloidal

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on a slant

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slanting, aslant, inclined, oblique, on a bias, diagonal, askew

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bent abruptly

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geniculate, inflexed, intorted

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bent abruptly backward

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retroflex, cacuminal

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showing short and sharp veelike turns

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zigzag, staggered, chevroned, cringle-crangle

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having a shape formed by lines rather than by curves (hence having angles

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angular

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having a curve or curves (roundness or rondure)

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curvilinear, curved, curvate, bowed, curviform, arching, arciform

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slightly curved

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curvulate

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curved upward

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upcurved, upturned, arched, arculate, vaulted, concamerateds

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curved downward

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downcurved, downturned, decurved, decurvate

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curved foward

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procurved

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curved backward

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recurved, recurvate

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curved inward

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incurved, incurvate, involute, hooked, aduncous

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curved outward

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excurved, excurvate

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curving back toward itself

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hooked, crooked

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curved around farther than a semicircle

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gibbous

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curved up and around and closed or almost closed

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looped

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describing a curve that is bold or lengthy

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sweeping

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describing a series of reverse curves

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whiplash

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curving or arcing (two curved lines) to a point

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cusped

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curving to a central point with a “dip” (contraflexure) inward on either side of the apex

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making a perfect closed curve (two dimensions)

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circular, round, ring-like, annular, cycloid, cycloidal, rotunds

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flat and circular

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hollowed inward

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concave, bowl-like, basin-like, crater-like, dished, sunken, depressed

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rounded, and bulging outward

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convex, protuberant, gibbous, cupped, cupriform

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concave on one side and convex on the other

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concavo-convex, convexo-concave more

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curved on the concave than on the convex side

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concavo-convex

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more curved on the convex than on the concave side

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convexo-concave

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concave on two or both sides

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bioconcave

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convex on two or both sides

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bioconvex, amphicyritic

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circular in three dimension or ball-like

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round, spherical, spheral, globular, globuse, orblike, globate, rotund, spheriform, bombous, conglobate

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nearly round

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like a half-circle

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semicircular, hemicyclic

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like a half moon (or lune)

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semilunar, demilune

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round but wider in the middle or flattened at the top

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round but longer vertically (as along a polar axis)

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more or less round

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spheroidal, ellipsoidal

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egg-shaped

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ooid, oval, ovoid, ovaliform, oviform, elliptical, ellipsoidal

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ovoid with the wider end up

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shounng coils or twists

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convoluted, convoled, whorled

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winding (as if around a pole) in shape

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spiral, helical, gyral, heliciform, sirulate, cochleate, corkscrew, tortile, curlicue

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spiral but narrowing toward the bottom

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having numerous turns or bends

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bending, winding, twisting, tortuous, sinuous, serpentine, meandering, anfractuous, waving, wavy, undulant, undulating

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like a complex or confusing network

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maze-like, mazy, labyrinthine, plexiform

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having or in the form of connecting links

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chain-like, festooned, catenary, catenate, concatenate, concatenated

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enclosing (with either straight or curved lines) a space and constituting a figure

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not (either straight or curved lines) enclosing a space or constituting a figure

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making a closed plane figure of straight lines

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many-sided

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multilateral, polygonal

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having many angles

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multiangular, polyangular

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being a two-dimensional figure

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being a three dimensional figure

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being a solid figure with many sides

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polyhedral, polyhedric

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being polyhedral with all vertices in two parallel planes

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prismatiodal

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many sided with parallelogram sides and the bases or ends parallel and congruent

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prismatic with parallelograms as bases or ends

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parallelepipedal

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being a paralellepiped with rhombuses for faces

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rhombohedral

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having two sides

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having two faces or fronts

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three-sided

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triangular, deltoid, trilateral, wedge-shaped, cuneate, trigonal, cuneiform, trigonous, deltoid

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triangular with unequal sides

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triangular with two equal sides

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triangular with equal sides

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equilateral

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triangular inversely

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obcuneate, obdeltoid

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being a three dimensional pointed figure with a base and triangles (usually four or three) for sides

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inversely pyramidal

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obpyramidal

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being a triangular (with three upright sides) pyramid

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tetrahedral

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having four sides and four angles

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quadrilateral, quadrangular, quadrangled, tetragonal

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four-sided with all right angles and equal sides

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square, foursquare, quadrate

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four-sided with all right angles (right angled parallelogram)

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rectangular

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four-sided with opposite sides parallel and equal

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parallelogrammatic

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four sided with two sides parallel

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trapeziodal, antiparallelogrammatic

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four-sided (parallelogram) with equal but non-right angled sides (or not a square)

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rhombic, rhombical

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four-sided (parallelogram) with unequal non-right angled sides

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somewhat like a rhomboid figure (rhombus or rhomb)

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rhomboidal

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four-sided with no parallel sides

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trapeziform, trapezial

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being a four-sided figure with two equal acute and two equal obtuse angles (or long rhomboid figure with the diagonal perpendicular to the horizontal)

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diamond, lozenge-shape

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solid with six square faces

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somewhat cubic in shape

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cuboid, cuboidal

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having an evenly extended or elongated round shape

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cylindrical, columnar, columnal, pillar-like, shaft-like

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narrowly cylindrical

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tubular, tubulate

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more or less cylindrical but tapering at one or both ends

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being a rounded figure (with a circular base) that tapers upward to a point

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conical, conic, funnel-shaped

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somewhat conical

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conoid, conoidal

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conical with the pointed end below

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like two opposite-pointing cones having the same base

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being a five sided plane figure (polygon)

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pentagonal

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being a six-sided plane figure

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being a seven sided plane figure

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heptagonal

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being an eight-sided plane figure

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being a nine-sided plane figure

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being a ten sided plane figure

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being a twelve sided plane figure

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dodecagonal

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being a (three dimensional) polyhedron with four faces

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tetrahedral

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being a polyhedron with five face

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pentahedral

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being a polyhedron with six faces

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hexahedral

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being a polyhedron with eight faces

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octahedral

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being a polyhedron with twelve faces

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dodecahedral

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being a polyhedron with twenty faces

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icosahedral

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being a polyhedron with twenty four faces

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icositetrahedral

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picture - like as a representational form

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glyphic, pictographic, hieroglyphic

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