Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word watermelon-shaped.
Examples
-
The name of this watermelon-shaped design hotel is fitting. hotelunique.com
-
Whoever designed this watermelon-shaped bus stop is a genius.
-
The inflatable satellite shell design looks similar to the Genesis I spacecraft, which is basically a watermelon-shaped balloon.
Archive 2006-08-01 Mac 2006
-
It was an eerie human-like creature, he said, about 4 feet tall with glowing orange eyes and no nose or mouth in a watermelon-shaped head.
Archive 2006-11-01 Mac 2006
-
With watermelon-shaped lumps studded with eyes for faces, the Bahro have zero range of expression, which hardly contributes to a sense of sympathy for their plight.
Archive 2005-10-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2005
-
With watermelon-shaped lumps studded with eyes for faces, the Bahro have zero range of expression, which hardly contributes to a sense of sympathy for their plight.
Myst V: End of Ages: Very Scattered Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum 2005
-
Called Misti—A Memory, it shows what the artist termed a “watermelon-shaped” volcanic peak in the Andes, painted with its conical top rising above horizontal cloud layers.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
-
The papaya is a tropical melonlike fruit found growing in semitropical climes like that of Cuba, Hawaii, Southern California, Florida, and Mexico; the papaw is a watermelon-shaped fruit about three to four inches long ....
-
Half-meter legs and watermelon-shaped head - nothing to look at. "
KZblog 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.