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Wedge-shaped

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Wedge´-shaped`
a.1.Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
2.(Bot.) Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
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Adj.1.Wedge-shapedwedge-shaped - (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base
cuneate
unsubdivided, simple - (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
2.Wedge-shapedwedge-shaped - shaped like a wedge                  
cuneal, cuneiform
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Afterward the center careered to the front until the regiment was a wedge-shaped mass, but an instant later the opposition of the bushes, trees, and uneven places on the ground split the command and scattered it into detached clusters.
The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen View in context
The gorge in which they had camped was a mere wedge-shaped cleft among the hills, three-quarters of a mile deep, with the small rugged rising upon which they stood at the further end, and the brown crags walling it in on three sides.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Strong lines radiated in a vertical plane from a common centre, where the insect had its station; but only two of the rays were connected by a symmetrical mesh-work; so that the net, instead of being, as is generally the case, circular, consisted of a wedge-shaped segment.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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